[Royalty, episcopacy, and law] [graphic].

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Title: [Royalty, episcopacy, and law] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Some of the principal inhabitants of [the] moon
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1810?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel
Description: Title from first line of text below image.
Text continues: ... as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brought to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse; exactly engraved from the objects whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &c.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 56.
Mounted to 307 x 225 mm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.7 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bishops
Law & legal affairs
Rulers
Allegorical prints
Subjects: Bishops
Law & legal affairs
Rulers
Allegorical prints
England > 1810
England > London > 1810

Access: Public
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