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2.
- 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].
3.
- Creator:
- Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- accorg. to act of Parliament 1751.
- Call Number:
- 751.00.00.50+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the clergy; a farmer and his wife offering their tythe to a clergyman by the tithe barn at the gate of his rectory; the man holds a sucking pig, the woman holds out an infant, saying that if the clergyman wants the former he must also take the latter; the clergyman turns away looking back over his shoulder in distaste."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Tithe pig and Dime
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Caption at top of image: La dime., Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ..., 'Price 6d.', and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Sold at the print shops of London & Westminster
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Farms, and Tithes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tythe pig [graphic]
4.
- 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].
5.
- Creator:
- June, John, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, March 13, 1752.
- Call Number:
- 752.03.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A farmer and his wife stand in a yard; a parson stands on the right. The wife, on the left, holds a sheath of wheat under one arm and a sucking pig under another; next to her and addressing the parson is the farmer with a baby in his arms. The parson leans on a walking stick as he gives a blessing with his right hand but his facial expression suggests greed. In the background is a large house, a dovecote, and a deer; a peacock sits perched on an iron fence. In the far left background is a church
- Alternative Title:
- Tithe pig
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet within plate mark with loss to image on the left side and part of the printmaker's signature., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: Ralph's wife and sow as gossips tell ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Mounted to 30 x 26 cm. On the verso, a map: Operations of the siege of the Citadel of Antwerp ... London : M. Colnaghi, Decr. 1832., and Loss of 1.5 cm of image on the left; inked in on the mounting sheet in a later hand. Inking partially obscures printmaker's name below the image.
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Fox
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Clergy, Fences, and Tithes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tythe pig [graphic]
6.
- 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].
7.
- 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].
8.
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 April 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.04.10.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A tall, thin gentleman in a military uniform walks accross a mountainous landscape carrying on his back an obese parson with a "Tithes" basket full of chickens and a sucking-pig under his left arm and a scourge with three lashes in his right hand. Behind them and in front of his sheaved harvest stands a farmer dressed in a smock, with a branch in his right hand and his hat in the left. He says, "We Farmers have our Bodys Eat up, for the good of our Souls."
- Alternative Title:
- Majesty of the people
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text following title: The Lord open'd the mouth of the ass, &c., and Mounted to 31 x 45 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 10th, 1783, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Tithes, Clergy, Farmers, Military officers, British, Clothing & dress, Whips, and Obesity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Balaam, or, The majesty of the people [graphic].
9.
- Creator:
- Wigstead, Henry
- Published / Created:
- [25 February 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.00.00.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; imprint from Beinecke Library impression., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. For later version etched by Rowlandson, see no. 9681, v. 7., and Temporary local subjects: Gout -- Food -- Suckling pig -- Pluralists.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Feby. 25, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England. and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Tithes, Church of England, Gout, Clergy, and Swine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The tithe pig [graphic]
10.
- 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].