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- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1809?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.4
- Collection Title:
- V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits full face in an upright arm-chair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him (left) is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. The farmer says: "I bequeath my House and Lands to my eldest Son Dick- the rest of my property to my Wife and younger Children. I leave Six and eightpence to the Lawyer- all his gallipots and phials to the Doctor and half a years tithes to the Parson- Therefore March off Doctor! Write Lawyer! Pray parson cry Wife! and bellow Children! For it is all over with me"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "299" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., "One shilling colour'd.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 16 in volume 4.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Farmers, Lawyers, Physicians, and Wills
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A farmer's philosophy in death [graphic]