Plate lettered in the top center 'A': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. The preacher with his wig flying off and his jester's shirt exposed under his robe. One sheet of paper behind his head reads " To St. Money-trap"; another sheet at his chest reads " I speak as a fool; 2. A cherub with a riding hat holds in his mouth one end of the paper at the preacher's head; 3. One of the preacher's puppets, a witch with a pointed hat and riding a broomstick; 4. The other puppet, a demon walks toward the right holding a gridiron
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Angels, Churches, Clegy, Demons, Preachers, Putti, and Witches
Plate lettered in the top center 'D': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. The clerk surrounded by angel heads (2,3). The clerk holds an opened book which rests on a pulpit from which hangs a sign lettered "Only love to us be gev'n Lord we ask no other Heav'n. Hymn by G. Whitfield [sic] page 130."; 4. Another two figures below. The one on the left weeps into a cloth; the other looks up as a demon whispers in his ear
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate lettered in the top center 'E': Reverse copies of six details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Each item is numbered; 1. "Scale of vociferation"; 2, 3. A cleric with a distraught man in prayer; 4. A Jew with a beard before an altar with a Bible and a knife with 'Bloody' written on the blade; 5. A man with clasped hands singing, looking heavenward; 6. A man with a cap, shouting
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Churches, Clegy, Praying, Scales, Singing, and Thermometers
