The parson and the Clarke [graphic].

Description

Title: The parson and the Clarke [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Copyright Date: [17 March 1809]
Abstract: "Mrs. Clarke (right), seated on a settee, addresses a fat parson in an arm-chair who registers excitement, with leg and arms raised, and wig flying from his head. Between them is a table; by Mrs. Clarke are papers headed: Army Preferment and Church Preferment. The parson, turning up his eyes, says: O-how I should like to preach before Royalty. She says, with extended palm, Only pay the Clarkes Fees, and the business is done. Between them hangs a placard: So great on the Church were O'Meara's designs, That he prov'd too ambitious a spark, But where is the wonder ye learned Divines, That the Parson should follow the Clarke."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 42.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1809.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1809.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson,--1776-1852--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11258
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 154