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
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., Temporary local subjects: Gout -- Food -- Suckling pig -- Pluralists., 1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.0 x 29.5 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
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
A pretty young girl with long hair under a huge mob cap sits on the knees of a fat clergyman who in turn sits astride a cart made from a cask of ale marked 'October'. One of the wheels of this cart is labelled "Cheshire"; the cart is being pulled by a sow whose three babies are suckling her. The clergyman is kissing the girl and holding a glass in his right hand. A devil stands on the back of the cask looking over the clergyman's head and the tip of his tail is in the glass. A signpost to the right reads "To the Bottom". A boar follows the cart at a distance. In the distant background on the left is a church
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
1787 Published by Boyne & Walker, March 16 Gr. Turnstile
A parson glares angrily through a monocle at a piece on paper in his hand labelled "Tithe table ..." A country yokel in a smock holding a walking stick stares at him with a downcast look
Description:
Title from item., Original design attributed to Woodward in the British Museum catalogue., and Five lines of verse below title, beginning: Then the vicar, Full of fees customary, with his burying gloves ...
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Clergy, Monocles, People associated with agriculture, and Tithes
A thin emaciated Parson holds a 'tithe' in the form of a pig in a basket while a second Parson, obese with a huge puanch, raises a stick in the air and opens his mouth wide as if beginning an admonishment
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
A rotund rector with a caricatured, grinning face sits at his dinner table in his comfortable upholstered arm chair. He gestures to his manservant, who wears an equally pleased look on his face, to place the roasted pig on the table. A dog sits at the rector's feet, looking up expectedly
Description:
Title engraved above image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, Swine, Tableware, and Tithes
A farmer releases a drove a bees from the beehive he delivers to a well-fed parson with a large wig. The clergyman and the couple behind him react with alarm as they swat at the bees. The parson's dog bites the farmer's smock. Another man enters the door (right) smiling
Alternative Title:
Paying tithes in kind
Description:
Title engraved below image., One line of text below image: Measter says, if he be obliged to vin'd the bees, he been't obliged to vin'd the hives an be rot to un., One of the series of Laurie & Whittle drolls., Numbered '147' in lower left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 24th Jany. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Pictures amplifying subject: painting of a church -- Slang: crow & pigeon -- Placards., and Printmaker's name in lower left of image partially erased from plate. Possibly a restrike.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by Hixon, engraver, printer & printseller, No. 355, near Exeter-change, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Cats, Clergy, Dogs, Firearms, Glassware, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, Tithes, Wine, and Wine cellars
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Young women -- Pictures amplifying subject: painting of a church -- Slang: crow & pigeon -- Placards., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26 x 28.3 cm, on sheet 28.9 x 30.8 cm., Date and address of publication burnished from sheet., and Mounted on leaf 49 of volume 6 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 1, 1799, by Hixon, engraver, printer & printseller, No. 355, near Exeter-change, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bottles, Cats, Clergy, Dogs, Firearms, Glassware, Interiors, Pipes (Smoking), Pitchers, Religious dwellings, Servants, Tithes, Wine, and Wine cellars
A scene outside the Ram Inn (with a ram above the sign "Dealer in foreigh wintes"), part of whose front forms a background. Yokels are crowded in a wagons with banners, fiddlers, and trumpeter, all wearing favors, and accompanied by many pedestrians (including women and children with dogs) and one or two mounted men. They are witnesses, &c., in a lawsuit on the claim of the vicar of Berkeley, Mr. Carrington, to the great tithes of Gloucester; on a verdict against the vicar they are about to go in procession to Berkeley for a celebration near the vicarage, with a roasted ox, firing of small cannon, &c.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill.
