The country vicar [graphic].

Description

Title: The country vicar [graphic].
Contributor: Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: "Design in an oval. A bust character-study of a fat and jovial man, directed to the right. He is plainly dressed, wearing a very bushy wig, and smokes a pipe."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Artist and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Companion print to: The country curate. See British Museum catalogue no. 8420.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of number "378". Missing numbering supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Numbered "378" in lower left. See British Museum catalogue no. 8419.
No. 9 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance: From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.5 x 12 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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