31.
- Creator:
- Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1775]
- Call Number:
- 775.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A white-bearded and tonsured cleric in a monastic habit gazes at a young woman wearing a long mantilla and a dress with a revealing decolletage
- Description:
- Title etching below image., Publication date conjectured from that of the print of which this one is a reduced copy., Reduced copy, with different plate number and without imprint. Cf No. 3775 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Four lines of verse in 2 columns below title: "Here the fair humble penitent behold, to the good father all her sins unfold. He hears, absolves. But mark his leering eyes, and judge by them where his devotion lies.", and Numbered in plate: 130.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Confession, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confession [graphic]