An ass loaded wth [sic] [church] preferments [graphic].

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Title: An ass loaded wth [sic] [church] preferments [graphic].
Alternative Title: Ass loaded wth church preferments
Ass loaded with church preferments
Published / Created: published according to act of Parliament, [approximately 1736]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: An ass with panniers, driven by Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury who carries a whip in one hand and a book in the other. The ass has the face of Dr. Lynch, Dean of Canterbury, son-in-law of Wake who bestowed manu preferments on the Dean. A poorly fed and clothed clergyman kneels on one knee before the ass and salutes the beast, who turns his face away. In the pannier, which is marked "Sinecure of Bray", lie many labels or packages inscribed with the names of Dr. Llynch's preferments
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from dated impression of this print in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Publication date in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1735.
The word 'church' in title is represented by an image of a church building.
Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet.
Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.8 x 21.3 cm, on sheet 29 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1736
Etchings England London 1736
Rebuses
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text
Subject (Name): Wake, William, 1657-1737
Lynche, John, 1697 or 1698-1760
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Donkeys
Nepotism
Subjects: Wake, William, 1657-1737 > Caricatures and cartoons
Lynche, John, 1697 or 1698-1760 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clergy
Donkeys
Nepotism
England > 1736
England > London > 1736

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