"A ragged man, wearing clerical bands, stands full face. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, his toes protrude through one shoe. He looks downwards with a meditative grimace, one arm held out towards a church steeple among trees. Mountains form a background. Beneath is etched: '"------Best scene of all, "With which I close this reverend description, "Is your Welch Parson, with his noble living, "Sans shoes, Sans hose, sans breeches, sans every thing.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward. See British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below title, beginning: Best scene of all ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Literature: parody of Shakespeare's As You Like It, ii, 7, 163.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1st, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.