The tythe pig [graphic]

Description

Title: The tythe pig [graphic]
Alternative Title: Tithe pig
Dime
Creator: Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
Contributor: Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, artist.
Published / Created: accorg. to act of Parliament 1751.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold at the print shops of London & Westminster
Abstract: "Satire on the clergy; a farmer and his wife offering their tythe to a clergyman by the tithe barn at the gate of his rectory; the man holds a sucking pig, the woman holds out an infant, saying that if the clergyman wants the former he must also take the latter; the clergyman turns away looking back over his shoulder in distaste."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Caption at top of image: La dime.
Two columns of verse below title: In country village lives a vicar, fond--as all are!--of tythes and liquor ...
'Price 6d.'
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Donald Heald; August 1992;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 30.9 x 20.8 cm, on sheet 35 x 24 cm
Edition: [State with artist and printmaker's name, title in French above image, imprint, and price].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1751
Engravings England London 1751
Etchings England London 1751
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Farms
Tithes
Subjects: Clergy
Farms
Tithes
England > 1751
England > London > 1751

Access: Public
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