A flight of parsons!! [graphic]

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Title: A flight of parsons!! [graphic]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [24 February 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Febry. 24, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: A country yokel in a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a stool beside a simple table outside in a farm house opposite a pigsty wtih a large pig and her piglets and chickens and their chicks running around in alarm. In the upper left sky a flock of parson in the form of birds fly in various directions. A second man sits on the gate looking up at the clergy/birds
Description: Also attributed to Isaac Cruikshank in unverified information from card.
Publisher's statement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Paper watermarked T.W. 1795.
Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper) T. W.
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Agricultural laborers
Clergy
Farms
Pipes (Smoking)
Poultry
Swine
Subjects: Agricultural laborers
Clergy
Farms
Pipes (Smoking)
Poultry
Swine
England > 1796
England > London > 1796
T. W.
Fores, S. W. > Stamp

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