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11.
The old sow in distress, or The country parsons return from tithing [graphic].

Creator:
Colley, Thomas, active 1780-1783, artist
Published / Created:
[1786?]
Call Number:
786.00.00.35+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A jolly fat parson,with an egg basket over his right arm and chicken, pigs, and geese bursting from his pockets and the tops of his boot, rides a horse to the right towards a sign that reads "120 Miles to London." On the extreme left a pig walks from a thatched cottage, following the parson who has apparently taken one of her young
Alternative Title:
Country parsons return from tithing
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd & sold by W. Humphrey, No. 3 Lancaster Street
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Tithes, Clergy, Swine, Horses, Hedges (Plants), Chickens, Geese, Thatched roof buildings, and Milestones
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The old sow in distress, or The country parsons return from tithing [graphic].

12.
A pleasing method of rouzing the doctor, or, A tythe pig no bad sight [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the Act directs 31 August, 1775.
Call Number:
775.08.31.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Alternative Title:
Tythe pig no bad sight and Pleasing method of rousing the doctor
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered in plate: 328.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Church of England, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A pleasing method of rouzing the doctor, or, A tythe pig no bad sight [graphic].

13.
A tythe pig no bad sight [graphic].

Published / Created:
[17--]
Call Number:
Print20089
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Description from similar print in Lewis Walpole Library: A sleeping clergyman sits in an armchair, oblivious to a maid tickling his nose with the tail of a sucking pig, just delivered by a man standing in the open doorway. On a table is an inkstand and quill, a wine bottle, glass and candle with a book entitled "Tythe laws fully consider'd". At cat pulls from the table a paper labelled "Bans of marriage", while on the floor near a small dog a large book lies open to "Poem on good living". The clergyman's portrait and that of a woman hang on the wall behind him beside a map entitled "A Plan of the doctor's parish."
Description:
Title below image., Date supplied by curator., Below title is a poem in three columns: "The well fed rich Doctor now Dinner is o'er, In his Arm Chair gives way to an Afternoon's snore ..., In margin lower right: 102., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver, at their Map and ... Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Tithes, Clothing & dress, Practical jokes, Dogs, and Swine
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > A tythe pig no bad sight [graphic].

14.
Paying tythes in kind [graphic].

Published / Created:
[24 January 1795]
Call Number:
795.01.24.03.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A farmer releases a drove a bees from the beehive he delivers to a well-fed parson with a large wig. The clergyman and the couple behind him react with alarm as they swat at the bees. The parson's dog bites the farmer's smock. Another man enters the door (right) smiling
Alternative Title:
Paying tithes in kind
Description:
Title engraved below image., One line of text below image: Measter says, if he be obliged to vin'd the bees, he been't obliged to vin'd the hives an be rot to un., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '147' in lower left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 24th Jany. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Beehives, Clergy, Farmers, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Paying tythes in kind [graphic].

15.
The rector [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 December 1791]
Call Number:
791.12.01.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A rotund rector with a caricatured, grinning face sits at his dinner table in his comfortable upholstered arm chair. He gestures to his manservant, who wears an equally pleased look on his face, to place the roasted pig on the table. A dog sits at the rector's feet, looking up expectedly
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, Swine, Tableware, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rector [graphic].

16.
The tythe pig [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1751?]
Call Number:
751.00.00.51
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tithe pig
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date inferred., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below., and Mounted to 34 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Farms, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The tythe pig [graphic].

17.
The tythe pig [graphic].

Published / Created:
[ca.1760]
Call Number:
760.00.00.13+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tithe pig
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from edition described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Ralph's wife and sow as gossips tell, both at a time in pieces fell ..., Another state, by a different publisher. Cf. No. 3794 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Farms --Vehicles: hay wagon.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street & John Smith in Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The tythe pig [graphic].

18.
The vicar [graphic].

Published / Created:
Decr. 1, 1790.
Call Number:
790.12.01.07
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A parson glares angrily through a monocle at a piece on paper in his hand labelled "Tithe table ..." A country yokel in a smock holding a walking stick stares at him with a downcast look
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., and Five lines of verse below title, beginning: Then the vicar, Full of fees customary, with his burying gloves ...
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Monocles, People associated with agriculture, and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The vicar [graphic].

19.
Tithes in kind [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1787]
Call Number:
787.03.16.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty young girl with long hair under a huge mob cap sits on the knees of a fat clergyman who in turn sits astride a cart made from a cask of ale marked 'October'. One of the wheels of this cart is labelled "Cheshire"; the cart is being pulled by a sow whose three babies are suckling her. The clergyman is kissing the girl and holding a glass in his right hand. A devil stands on the back of the cask looking over the clergyman's head and the tip of his tail is in the glass. A signpost to the right reads "To the Bottom". A boar follows the cart at a distance. In the distant background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
1787 Published by Boyne & Walker, March 16 Gr. Turnstile
Subject (Topic):
Clergy and Tithes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tithes in kind [graphic].