A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic] / Woodward delt.
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker.
- Copyright Date:
- [not before 6 July 1807]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 34.7 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: London, Pubd. July 6th, 1807, by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 807.07.06.01.1.
Plate numbered "136" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
"Price 1 sh. collored [sic]." - Abstract:
- "A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing nailed to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (right). He asks "Ha! Ha - the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, - Canst thee tell me - why - a Parsons Horse be like a King?" The parson answers with a grin: "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a Minister." He is drink-blotched and prosperous-looking; in his pocket is a 'Sermon to beprea[ched] ...'."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Dignity of a parsons horse
- Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1807.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1807.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 75
W87
807 v.2
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 12858160
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr10901
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10904
- OID:
- 16192440
- PID:
- digcoll:4046311
