"An obese and gouty parson (left) reclines in an arm-chair, inspecting through an eye-glass a sucking-pig which a buxom maidservant brings in on a dish. She shows it to the clerk, who sits beside the parson, with a paper: 'An Estimate of the Tythes of this Parish'. The latter sniffs at the pig's snout. Two dogs eagerly fawn on the maid. Through the doorway (right) a lean yokel sourly scratches his head, waiting for the verdict on his pig. The parson's swathed leg is supported on a stool; beside him are a bottle and glass, a crutch and chamber-pot. On the wall is a picture of a group of church spires, suggesting that he is a pluralist, though the room is bare and old-fashioned."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
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Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Clergy, Clerks, Crutches, Dogs, Farmers -, Interiors, Religious dwellings, Servants, and Swine
"The steward, in night-cap and slippers, sits (left) in his office, looking up with stern suspicion at a yokel in a long smock who scratches his head, saying, "Donna look so Glum your Honor - I would pay my Rent un I could but consider what a Nation bad hay time it has been." A 'Survey of the Estate', books (List of 'Tenan[ts]') are on the wall; writing-materials on a small table, on which is a 'Rental'."--British Museum online catalogue description of alternate state
"A burly and ragged Irishman with a wooden leg sits on the knee of a fat and grotesque Englishwoman; they kiss, his right arm round her neck, both her arms round his shoulders. A poverty-stricken room is indicated by a low casement window with broken panes, bricks showing through broken plaster, and a rough plank door (left). On a table is an enormous tankard and a small measure of gin."--British Museum online catalogue
"A tall strapping Irishman wearing a flamboyant cocked hat and quasi-military uniform looks down, with a sly smile, at his squat and bedizened bride. Under his right arm is a long cudgel or shillelagh. She takes his arm and looks up rapturously. They walk (right to left) across the 'Crescent', Bath, whose houses form a background. A gouty old man on crutches behind them (right) looks sourly at them, and a chair-man (left) between the shafts of his sedan-chair, gapes in astonishment."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Captain Shelalee leading Miss Marrowfat to the Temple of Hymen
"An actor, ugly and ragged, stands gesticulating, the left arm extended towards Sheridan, who sits in a low chair (right) before a small rectangular table. He fixes Sheridan with a hungry glare, clutching a small cocked hat in his right hand ... In the upper right corner of the design is a quotation from 'Hamlet', III. ii, beginning 'Oh, there be Players', and ending, 'they imitated humanity so abominably'."--British Museum online catalogue
Two vicars sit at a table in a sitting room; a painting on the wall behind them is labelled "View of the vicarage". One of the men is very fat and wears a night cap; he dozes in an arm chair, his foot on a sleeping dog at his feet, the "Oxford Journal" on the floor having apparently dropped from his hand. The other, a thinner man, pours two generous glasses of port from a full carafe, and observes to his companion "What is life without the enjoyment of a friend".
