"Two fat elderly parsons in cap and gown walking together along the side-aisle of a large Gothic church fall violently over a rope stretched across the aisle and held by two groups of undergraduates, also in cap and gown. With the group on the right is a buxom young woman, pulling the rope. Two undergraduates flourish long-lashed whips, one aims a squirt, another lets off a squib. The aisle is divided from the nave by an iron railing; on the ground is a stone or brass with a mitre and crosier inscribed 'Here Lies the Body of Bishop Blear eyes.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., "Price one shilling coloured.", Variant without publication date of no. 11781 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Watermark: Charles Wise., and 1 print on wove paper : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 35 x cm.
