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1. The country choristers [graphic]
- Creator:
- Goldar, John, 1729-1795, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, 20 March 1773.
- Call Number:
- 773.03.20.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire [on] singers in country churches. Six men sing enthusiastically from one hymn book, while another, on the left, wearing a wig, plays a wind instrument; a young man and young woman look down from a gallery. On the wall behind hangs an escutcheon with three owls."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Jno. Smith, No. 35, Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53, Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors, Churches, Choir stalls, Choirs (Music), Singing, and Wind instruments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The country choristers [graphic]
2. [The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Goldar, John, 1729-1795, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puritan dress, is assailed by two women. On the right an old woman touches his arm and points to the church with a volume, unlabeled in this working proof but later lettering "Whitefield's Hymns". On the left, a pretty, young woman lures him toward the public house. He eyes the young woman as he holds up his one hand deprecatingly toward the older woman
- Description:
- Title and date from British Museum catalogue., Finished print lettered with title and inscriptions: "J. Collet pinxt. / J. Goldar sculpt. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street & Jno. Smith No. 35, Cheapside, as the Act directs Jan. 1. 1773.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 52 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
- Subject (Name):
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Temptation, Signs (Notices), and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].
