Fast day [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[20 March 1812]eng"Four elderly parsons, grossly fat, apparently Fellows of Brasenose College, are seated in stuffed arm-chairs at a small dinner-table. One (right) carves a capon, another ladles soup from a tureen, the others drink. One servant hands wine, another brings in a bowl, into which his nose drips as in Swift's 'Directions to Servants' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 10918). A third in the doorway, more unkempt than the others, brings in a sucking-pig. On the floor (right) is a paper: 'A New form of Prayer, Gravy Soup, Mock Turtle, 'Cods Head', 'Turbott', 'Haunch of Venison', 'Stewed Carp', 'Roast Ducks', 'Pidgeon Rye', 'Woodcocks', 'Jelly', 'Marrow Pudding'. On the left are a wine-cooler, many bottles, three labelled 'Burg[undy]', 'Ho[ck]', 'Clar[et]', a loving-cup, a punchbowl inscribed 'Bowl for a Bishop', with lemons, a cork-screw, and the lid of the tureen. On the walls are pictures: 'Bench of Bi[shops]' [in reversed characters], parsons carousing at a table, some lolling in easy chairs; 'Ecclesiastical Court', an elderly man (or woman) doing penance in a sheet and holding a candle; 'View of Brazen Nose Col.', a college quadrangle; a picture of an anchorite in the wilderness, holding a cross; 'Susannah' [and the Elders]; 'Portrait of S . . . Fellow Commoner of Braze[nose]' [the subject cut off by the upper margin]. There are also two notices, partly obscured, on the wall: 'This Day Being Proclaimed A Fast . . . Church', and 'List of Great Tythes Church Lands . . '."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Mounted on leaf 8 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.