"A man in hat, long coat, and boots (and wearing spectacles), grasps his friend's hand with a smile. The host, ugly and angry, says: "Ah! my old Friend I wish you had called at some more convenient time but this is washing day - I have nothing to give you but cold Fish, cold tripe & cold potatoes - you may smell soap suds a mile! Ah Jack - Jack you dont know these Comforts! you are a Bachelor!" Behind (left), two women stand at a wash-tub"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title and number etched above image., Earlier state with date in imprint. Cf. No. 9626 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Earlier state of the print described in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 16.
Publisher:
Pub. 1 Oct. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Spouses, Bachelors, Eyeglasses, Laundresses, and Wash tubs
"A version of British Museum Satires No. 1231 with the additon of, to left behind the pulpit, a table on which lies a bag from which fall a bishop's mitre, papal tiara, cross, orb, broken sceptre and a divided crown, and at the foot of the pulpit, an open copy of the Book of Common Prayer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and publication date from British Museum catalogue., Six lines of verse below image: A true blew priest a Lincey Woolsey brother ..., and Subject identified in pencil below plate line.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Bags, Pulpits, Miters, Scepters, Crowns, and Wash tubs