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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 March 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.03.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Pitt (r.), as a bare-footed monk with a large tonsure, sits in a high Gothic chair. Melville, in Highland dress and holding his feathered bonnet, kneels before him in profile to the right., saying, "Ye mun knaw - I have got into a little wee scrape, - and as ye knaw you and I ganarally rowd in the same boat - I want to ask your advice." Pitt looks agitated, and puts out his hands with a deprecating gesture; he says: "Dont implicate me I request - I that am compleatly Imacculate. Except laying a few trifling Taxes on Income, Births, Marriages, Burials, Houses, Windows, Tea, Coffee, Wine, Horses, Dogs, Carriages, Wills, Agreements, Servants, Hats, Receipts, News-Papers, Letters - Bricks, Tiles, Pepper, Salt, Cyder, Perry, Malt, Hops, - and such like iconsiderable things - , I dont think I ever did a paw - paw - action in all my Life. - however I'll endeavour to procure you absolution, for old acquaintance sake.""--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Johnny MacCree at confession
- Description:
- Title from item., Printseller's announcement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Mounted to 49 x 30 cm., and Watermark: Strasburg Lily.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 29th, 1805 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- Monks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Iohnny MacCree at confession [graphic].
