The rector [graphic].

Published/Created:

London
Pubd. Decr. 1, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St
[1 December 1791]

Physical Description:

1 print : aquatint with etching on laid paper ; plate mark 362 x 251 mm.

Notes:

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.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Mounted to 40 x 28 cm.

Abstract:

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.

Associated Names:

Holland, William, active 1782-1817 [Publisher]
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 [Artist]

Topics:

Clergy
Dogs
Eating & drinking
Servants
Swine
Tableware
Tithes

Language:

English

Genre:

Aquatints -- England -- London -- 1791
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1791

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

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

Call Number:

791.12.01.01

Orbis Record:

7783668

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07268

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732669

PID:

digcoll:552008