The minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pr-ty---n's bisho-prick [graphic] / JS [monogram] ff.

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Title: The minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pr-ty---n's bisho-prick [graphic] / JS [monogram] ff.
Alternative Title: Minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pretyman's bishopric
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Phillips, R., publisher.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pretyman, George,--1750-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1787 March
Copyright Date: [March 1787]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: R. Phillips, Southwark
Abstract: "Pitt (left) holds up the dome of St. Paul's which he is about to place over the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral (right). He stands in a graveyard at some distance, and leans forward, on tip-toe, his right foot resting on a rectangular tombstone inscribed 'Hic jacet' and decorated with a bishop's mitre, a winged skull, and cross-bones"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 32.6 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 34.7 x 26.5 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1787.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1787.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Phillips, R., publisher.
Pitt, William,--1759-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
Pretyman, George,--1750-1827--Caricatures and cartoons.
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Cathedrals--England.
Cemeteries.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7146