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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 July 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.07.06.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing next to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (riding to the left). He asks, "Ha! Ha, the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, Canst thee tell me why a parsons horse be like a king?" The parson answers with a grin, "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a minister." He is red-faced and freckled and prosperous looking, with a round belly; he carries a sermon in his pocket whose title is "Sermon to be prea[ched] ..."
- Alternative Title:
- Dignity of a parsons horse
- Description:
- Plate numbered '136' in upper right corner., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 10904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with altered imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Edmeads & Co.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 6th, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy and Joking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic]
