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...
Alternative Title:
Country parsons return from tithing
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd & sold by W. Humphrey, No. 3 Lancaster Street
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 th...
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Dogs, Eating & drinking, Servants, Swine, Tableware, and Tithes
"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 ...
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 ...
