"[1] "Ignorance is bliss --" Two liveried flunkeys, 'pampered menials', lounge on the doorsteps of a town house, a bloated dog seated between them. One asks his obese companion 'What is Taxes Thomas?!!' Answer: 'I'm sure I don't Know!' Inside the hall...
"The freeholder, a ragged Irish peasant, stands full-face, between a bloated priest (left) and a fashionably dressed young man; both tug at his coat-collar. The obese priest, who wears robes, with a large cross from neck to knee, holds up a print of t...
Alternative Title:
Forty shilling freeholders only expedient for the salvation of body and soul
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket ...
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland.
Subject (Topic):
Devil, Peasants, Pipes (Smoking), Poverty, Priests, and Staffs (Sticks)
"A giant File (for filing papers by spiking them), a rod with a round base and terminating in a hook, bisects the design vertically. To the hook is padlocked a handsome country seat, surrounded by trees, lawn, flower-bed, deer, and peacock. At the bas...
"An inverted wine-glass (claret shape), partly fluted, represents a woman; the bowl is a bell-shaped petticoat, the stem a pinched waist and bodice; the wide base forms the brim of her plateau-hat on which stands a cork with a metal rim and upstanding...
Alternative Title:
Desert-imitation of modern fashion! and Dessert-imitation of modern fashion!
