A 40sh. freeholders only expedient for the salvation of boby [sic] & soul [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A 40sh. freeholders only expedient for the salvation of boby [sic] & soul [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Forty shilling freeholders only expedient for the salvation of body and soul
- Creator
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Contributor
- McLean, T. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [July 1828?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket ...
- Abstract
-
"The freeholder, a ragged Irish peasant, stands full-face, between a bloated priest (left) and a fashionably dressed young man; both tug at his coat-collar. The obese priest, who wears robes, with a large cross from neck to knee, holds up a print of the Devil smoking a pipe, in the bowl of which sits a tortured man; he says: Vote for your Priest or see this picture of your Soul in the next world. The other points behind him to an eviction scene, saying, Vote for your Landlord or see the real consequence in this World. In the background is a cluster of mud huts placarded Wanted Protestant Tenants for these Cabins. Men chase away a ragged family in one direction, and a pig in the other. Freeholder: Sure I'm bother'd [cf. BM Satires No. 8141] hadent I better be after voten for both your honors id would make the thing asier aney how. In one hand is his shillelagh, in the other his hat with a tobacco-pipe thrust in it."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella.
Imprint continues: ... where political & other caricatuers are daily published.
Questionable date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 193. - Provenance
- Caricatures II; September 1968;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25.8 x 36 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 828.07.00.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Artists' devices
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Ireland.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Devil
Peasants
Pipes (Smoking)
Poverty
Priests
Staffs (Sticks) - Subjects
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Devil
Peasants > Ireland
Pipes (Smoking)
Poverty > Ireland
Priests > Ireland
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1828
England > London > 1828
19th century
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9586993
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128768