The host of dissenters and St. Charles their black convert routed by the Church canon. [graphic]

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Title: The host of dissenters and St. Charles their black convert routed by the Church canon. [graphic]
Creator: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Contributor: Dent, William, active 1783-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 March 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by W. Dent
Description: Title etched below image.
Unverified attribution to Dent from local card catalog.
Publication information from the Library of Congress copy. Cf. LC 3:42.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Dissenters -- Symbols: dove of peace -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Dice and dice-box -- Reference to St. Stephen's Chapel -- Reference to the House of Commons -- Literature: reference to Richard Price's Observations on civil liberty -- Literature: reference to Edmund Burke's A philosophical inquiry into the origin of the sublime and beautiful -- Acts: repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, March 2, 1790 -- Thirty-nine articles -- Votes: majority 189 on repeal of Test and Corporation Act.
Mounted to 37 x 25 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.1 x 19.5 cm, on sheet 30 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1790
Drypoints England London 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman
Material: etching & drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
Price, Richard, 1723-1791
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Defecation
Gambling
Playing cards
Vomiting
Subjects: Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
Price, Richard, 1723-1791 > Caricatures and cartoons
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 > Caricatures and cartoons
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 > Caricatures and cartoons
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 > Caricatures and cartoons
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clergy
Defecation
Gambling
Playing cards
Vomiting
England > 1790
England > London > 1790
J Whatman

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