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- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1824]
- Call Number:
- 824.04.10.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A farmyard scene, with a corner of the house on the left. A grossly fat and carbuncled parson on a quest for tithes encounters the farmer's wife, who runs towards him proffering an open bandbox, with a dangling lid inscribed 10th. A miniature hussar, very dandified in shako and pelisse, stands in it, superciliously inspecting the parson through an eye-glass. The woman, who is plump and well-dressed, wearing apron and bonnet, says: Seeing your Reverence comeing for your Tithes, I have brought you a Tenth. The parson, who holds a large book, Tithe list, and has a chicken in his capacious pocket, answers with a scowl and gesture of refusal: Take it back! take it back! good Woman; I never tithe Monkeys. The little hussar says: Eh! eh! what does that there fellow say? An amused yokel with a pitchfork leans over a gate (left). A cock crows on a dunghill, an ass brays. Corn-sheaves stand in a distant field."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox and Dandified coxcomb in a bandbox
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 10th April 1824 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Military uniforms, Clergy, England, Obesity, Boxes, Farms, Donkeys, Roosters, and Pitchforks
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A tenth rejected, or, The dandyfied coxcomb in a bandbox [graphic].
