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Published / Created:: [24 January 1795]
Call Number:: 795.01.24.03.2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A farmer releases a drove a bees from the beehive he delivers to a well-fed parson with a large wig. The clergyman and the couple behind him react with alarm as they swat at the bees. The parson's dog bites the farmer's smock. Another man enters the door (right) smiling
Alternative Title:: Paying tithes in kind
Description:: Title engraved below image., One line of text below image: Measter says, if he be obliged to vin'd the bees, he been't obliged to vin'd the hives an be rot to un., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '147' in lower left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Published 24th Jany. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Beehives, Clergy, Farmers, and Tithes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Paying tythes in kind [graphic].