A holy friar sung most excellently by Mr. Doyle & several amateurs. [graphic]

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Title
A holy friar sung most excellently by Mr. Doyle & several amateurs. [graphic]
Contributor
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created
[4 June 1806]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd June 4, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract

A young, rotund friar sits at a table well-set with carafes, one each of red and white, and with plates of lushious fruit. He smiles as he raises his glass and looks at the viewer. Through the window (left) peeps a pretty young woman with a shawl over her head; she smiles slightly

Description
Title etched below image.
Two numbered columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ...
Verses may be a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of See British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered '428' in the lower left corner.
From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 22.8 x 23.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 28 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
806.06.04.01

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Eating & drinking
Fruit
Gluttony
Lust
Monks
Subjects
Eating & drinking
Fruit
Gluttony
Lust
Monks
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8540235
Object ID (OID)
15813881

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