The interior of a kitchen in a French inn, with figures including that of a curé conversing in a bland way with a man who, standing in huge sabots, holds a glass of drink; his hat is of a peculiarly extravagent shape. A woman with both hands under her apron is bowing to the curé; next to her a very tall and lean postillion is taking snuff from his box; he wears the customary enormous boots of his class. A boy in big wooden shoes clatters across the floor and wears a long queue
Description:
Title, artist, and date form inscription below design., Published etching based on this drawing is described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4764, and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from caption etched below image., Place and date of publication inferred from the periodical in which this print was published., Illustration to: Letters between two celebrated beauties., Plate from: The universal museum, or, The entertaining repository for gentlemen and ladies ... Coventry [England] : T. Luckman, v. 5 (1769), p. 517., Temporary local subject terms: Costumes: clergy., and Window mounted to 25 x 20 cm.
Caption title. Without imprint., Place of publication supplied by curator., First line: Three rosy fac'd Topers as ever was known, On a Frolick one night ..., Additional two lines of music "For the German flute.", This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Staff notation., and In ink upper right: 31.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Drinking songs, Sheet music, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Wine, Law, Clergy, and Songs
A solicitor approaches a clergyman and doctor; over his head hovers a demonic creature holding a long legal document. The rotund clergyman, looking very displeased, is flanked by the head of an ass peering over his shoulder and a small dog urinating on his voluminous clerical robes. A smug looking doctor carrying a walking stick has one hand upturned pinching his index finger and thumb as if to gesture holding something while a young boy trails afterward holding a written prescription in his extended arm. A picture hanging on the wall depicts a crude drawing of a hanged man
Description:
Title from text inscribed above image., Date suggested by curator., and For further information, consult library staff.
"Satire: parson, with two men, exorcising ghost in field."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Text beneath title: He donna half like it, give un a little more Maister Parson and he'll vanish!, Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Title from item., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Sheet trimmed to 14.0 x 19.9 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Spiritual healing, Sick persons, Priests, Bibles, and Birdcages
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of copies of 20 letters from Alured Clarke to Charlotte, Lady Sundon, followed by copies of 4 letters to her from Lord John Hervey and one letter from an unsigned hand. Many of the letters from Clarke concern his patronage of the poet Stephen Duck, in which he discusses his anxiety about exposing Duck to the cruelty of Alexander Pope and "the Dunciad Club," his negotiations with various booksellers and publishers on Duck's behalf, and his high hopes for Duck's poetry after the death of Duck's wife. He also describes books on religion, history, and moral philosophy that he has read; witnesses a presentation of "Indians" to the Queen; and imparts various religious and political news, including Quaker activities. The letters from Hervey consist primarily of descriptions of his own routine social activities as well as those of such notables as the King, Queen, and Duke of Grafton, though he also writes with surprise that Stanislaus has been chosen King of Poland and reports that Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Salisbury, is on the brink of being promoted to the bishopric of Winchester, despite his disagreements with Sir Robert Walpole. An unsigned letter dated 1734, sent "by a private hand," discusses the controversial nomination of Thomas Rundle to the see of Gloucester
Description:
Charlotte Clayton, Lady Sundon (c.1679-1742), courtier, married William Clayton (baptised. 1671, died 1752) of Sundon Hall in Bedfordshire before 1714. With the help of the Duchess of Marlborough, Charlotte Clayton was appointed a woman of the bedchamber to Caroline, princess of Wales in 1714. Her considerable influence over Caroline was distressing to Robert Walpole, who accused Clayton of procuring various political favors for her friends., Alured Clarke (1696-1742), was a Church of England clergyman. Ordained by his uncle Bishop Trimnell in 1720, in 1723 he became rector of Chilbolton in Hampshire and a prebendary of Winchester. He was a chaplain-in-ordinary to both George I and George II; in 1731, he became a prebendary of Westminster. Later he became deputy clerk of the closet to George II. Clarke was also a patron; he founded a county hospital at Winchester in 1736 and was a champion of the poet Stephen Duck., John Hervey, second Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1696-1743), was a courtier and writer. On 2 April 1725 he was elected MP for Bury St Edmunds, and entered the Commons as a supporter of Sir Robert Walpole. In 1730, he became vice-chamberlain to the king's household and, consequently, a member of the privy council; and, in 1740, lord privy seal. However, in 1742 Walpole resigned, and that same year Hervey also left public office. He wrote numerous tracts, including Ancient and Modern Liberty Stated and Compared (1734); The Conduct of the Opposition and the Tendency of Modern Patriotism (1734); and Miscellaneous Thoughts (1742). Hervey's Memoirs were published, with some material suppressed, in 1848, and a more complete version was published in 1931., In English., Pasted onto back pastedown: dealer's description of manuscript., Phillipps 18548., Binding: full calf. In gilt on spine: Clarke Sundon Letters., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Alured, 1696-1742., Duck, Stephen, 1705-1756., Bristol, John Hervey, Earl of, 1665-1751., Hervey, John Hervey, Baron, 1696-1743., Hoadly, Benjamin, 1676-1761., Rundle, Thomas, 1688?-1743., Stanisław I Leszczyński, King of Poland, 1677-1766., Sundon, Charlotte Clayton, Baroness, d. 1742, Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745., and Church of England
Subject (Topic):
Bishops, Clergy, Appointment, call, and election, Authors and patrons, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Sketches of the heads and shoulders of clerics. The five at the top, labelled 'London Clergy' are in clerical clothes and full of white wigs. Some of the heads are shown sideways, some full face. Below are five heads labelled 'Country Clergy', not in strictly clerical garb. One man has a hat on and a turban under it. Another wears a turban, still another has long natural hair
Alternative Title:
Country clergy
Description:
Title from text within image., Attribution to Rowlandson from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Wigs -- Clerical garb -- Turban., and Watermark centered on lower edge: T French.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3, Piccadilly
In an inn, a parson snores while his table companion, an old soldier with a wooden leg, recounts animatedly the battle of Dettingen, the map of which hangs on the wall behind them. Next to him, a dog sleeps by the roaring fireplace above which hangs a portrait, a carbine and a sword. The inn maid approaches the table with a roast on a platter
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., The digit "4" in "1784" in imprint statement is etched backwards., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
