Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]

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Title: Transubstantiation satirized [graphic]
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Faulder and J. Egerton
Abstract: The Virgin, seated in the clouds, feeds a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, fall onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a Roman Catholic, gives the sacrament to a kneeling figure at the left, another kneeling behind
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 122.
Cf. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 2156.
On page 232 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 22.4 x 14.3 cm.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23.7 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Humor
Early works to 1800
Aquatints England London 1794
Material: etching and aquatint in brown ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Transubstantiation
Communion
Grinding machines
Priests
Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Catholic Church > Great Britain > Humor > Early works to 1800
Transubstantiation
Communion
Grinding machines
Priests
England > London > 1794
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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