The holy friar [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[6 May 1807]eng"Two fat friars gormandize in a Gothic cloister, seated in easy chairs. A lean old friar or lay brother brings in a sucking-pig. On the ground beside them are a chest of 'Relicks', bottles of 'Tokay' and 'Lackrymy Christi', church plate, with a 'Consecrated Cup' and a paper: 'Absolu[tion] Confess[ion] of Miss Wagtail.' On the wall is pinned a large print, 'Food for the Convent' [see British Museum Satire No. 3777]: a friar walking to the convent door with a large sheaf of corn on his back, from which project the head and feet of a girl. On a window recess are a skull, hour-glass, and cross ..."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image."Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue.Two 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 are a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry. See British Museum catalogue.Grego identifies a companion print: Monastic fare.Plate numbered "Q. 2" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.