A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic]

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Title: A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic]
Alternative Title: Dignity of a parsons horse
Creator: Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [6 July 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 6th, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing next to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (riding to the left). He asks, "Ha! Ha, the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, Canst thee tell me why a parsons horse be like a king?" The parson answers with a grin, "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a minister." He is red-faced and freckled and prosperous looking, with a round belly; he carries a sermon in his pocket whose title is "Sermon to be prea[ched] ..."
Description: Plate numbered '136' in upper right corner.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Cf. No. 10904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with altered imprint statement.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Watermark: Edmeads & Co.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.1 x 34.5 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) Edmeads & Co.
Portrait prints
Material: etching with stipple, hand-colored ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Joking
Subjects: Clergy > England
Joking
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
Edmeads & Co.

Access: Public
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