The wet parsons and dry quaker (scene a village near Bath). [graphic]

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Title: The wet parsons and dry quaker (scene a village near Bath). [graphic]
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [12 January 1805]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Jany. 12, 1803 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A group of clergymen sit around a table in a tavern drinking and smoking and conversing with a Quaker. Some of their hats are hanging on pegs along the wall on either side of a framed picture of a man on a race horse. A fire is blazing in the fireplace to the left
Description: Title from item.
Plate numbered '383' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Four lines of descriptive text below title: Toasts and sentiments were going regularly round from the gentlemen of the cloth, but when it came to Broad-brim's turn he refused! Saying that it was not customary with his profession, to give either toasts or sentiments ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 23 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Great Britain
Eating & drinking
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Clergy > Great Britain
Eating & drinking
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1805
England > London > 1805

Access: Public
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