<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The monastic drone [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[between 1754 and 1764]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>A young woman and a monk sit under two trees while a monk sews or embroiders a piece of fabric with floral motifs. They are being observed by a man hiding behind the trees. In the background on the left is a church</dc:description><dc:description>Title from item.</dc:description><dc:description>Publication date inferred from publisher's address.</dc:description><dc:description>Two lines of verse on either side of title: Alass! [sic] how vain religion's awful [sic] name. The drone monastic blots it o'er with shame ...</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>