Tithe pig [graphic] / Rowlandson.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub. Jan. 1, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
[1 January 1790]

Copyright Date:

[1 January 1790]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.5 x 27.9 cm, on sheet 26 x 31 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 9681
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 268

Notes:

Title etched below image.
For an earlier version of this design, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 786.00.00.06+.
Temporary local subject terms: Tighe pig -- Gout -- Wine bottles -- Wine glasses -- Pictures amplifying subject.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss; v. iv.

Abstract:

"An obese and gouty parson (left) reclines in an arm-chair, inspecting through an eye-glass a sucking-pig which a buxom maidservant brings in on a dish. She shows it to the clerk, who sits beside the parson, with a paper: 'An Estimate of the Tythes of this Parish'. The latter sniffs at the pig's snout. Two dogs eagerly fawn on the maid. Through the doorway (right) a lean yokel sourly scratches his head, waiting for the verdict on his pig. The parson's swathed leg is supported on a stool; beside him are a bottle and glass, a crutch and chamber-pot. On the wall is a picture of a group of church spires, suggesting that he is a pluralist, though the room is bare and old-fashioned."--British Museum online catalogue.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Chairs
Clergy
Clerks
Crutches
Dogs
Farmers -
Harvey, Francis
Interiors
Religious dwellings
Riviere & Son
Servants
Swine

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1790
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1790

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

790.01.01.02+

Orbis Record:

7732968

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06858

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10731221

PID:

digcoll:550178