A young, rotund friar sits at a table well-set with carafes, one each of red and white, and with plates of lushious fruit. He smiles as he raises his glass and looks at the viewer. Through the window (left) peeps a pretty young woman with a shawl over her head; she smiles slightly
Description:
Title etched below image., Two numbered columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ..., Verses may be a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of See British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '428' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 4, 1806 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Eating & drinking, Fruit, Gluttony, Lust, and Monks
