A clerical manoeuvre, or, The way to finish a charity sermon [graphic]

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16192801

Description

Title
A clerical manoeuvre, or, The way to finish a charity sermon [graphic]
Alternative Title
Way to finish a charity sermon
Creator
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1 November 1815]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract

"A parson (left) leans from his pulpit, preaching with extended arm, while his clerk takes round the plate, with a sly smile: "I percieve my Beloved Brethren, that my discourse has operated on your feelings and sensibility, but I would advise you to be just before you are generous, I shall keep my eyes on you, and if any of you my Brethren are not in a state of solvency, or cannot pay twenty shillings in the pound (however may be the goodness of your respective Hearts) do not bestow a donation." The congregation eagerly hasten to contribute handsomely, making various remarks (e.g.) 'Ecod thats a capital manœuvre it's worth a pound note already.' A well-dressed man slinks off, saying, "Nothing but gold or Pound Notes well I'll steal off--I dont what [sic] business I had to poke my nose here"."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state

Description
Title etched below image.
Later state, with beginning of imprint statement burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1815, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12652 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Four lines of quoted verse following title: "Nature has made man's breast no windores, "to publish what he does within doors; "nor what dark secrets there inhabit, "unless his own rash folly blab it.
Plate numbered "217" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 75 in volume 3.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent
1 print : sheet 25 x 36 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1815
England > London > 1815
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9204222
Object ID (OID)
16192801

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