The tithe pig [graphic]

Description

Title: The tithe pig [graphic]
Creator: Wigstead, Henry
Published / Created: [25 February 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 25, 1786, by H. Brookes, Coventry Street
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; imprint from Beinecke Library impression.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. For later version etched by Rowlandson, see no. 9681, v. 7.
Temporary local subjects: Gout -- Food -- Suckling pig -- Pluralists.
1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27.0 x 29.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 38 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26.8 x 31 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Caricature and cartoon
Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Etchings England 1786
Aquatints England 1786
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
Subject (Topic): Tithes
Church of England
Gout
Clergy
Swine
Subjects: Tithes > Church of England > Caricature and cartoon
Gout
Clergy > England
Tithes > England > 1786
Swine > England
England > 1786
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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