The holy friar [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The holy friar [graphic]
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, attributed name.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher. - Published / Created
- [6 May 1807]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. May 6, 1807 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Abstract
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"Two fat friars gormandize in a Gothic cloister, seated in easy chairs. A lean old friar or lay brother brings in a sucking-pig. On the ground beside them are a chest of 'Relicks', bottles of 'Tokay' and 'Lackrymy Christi', church plate, with a 'Consecrated Cup' and a paper: 'Absolu[tion] Confess[ion] of Miss Wagtail.' On the wall is pinned a large print, 'Food for the Convent' [see British Museum Satire No. 3777]: a friar walking to the convent door with a large sheaf of corn on his back, from which project the head and feet of a girl. On a window recess are a skull, hour-glass, and cross ..."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
"Sir E. Bunbury" may refer to the artist H.W. Bunbury. See British Museum catalogue.
Two columns of verse below title: I am a friar of orders grey, And down the vallies I take my way; I pull not blackberry, haw or hip, Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip, My long bead roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want; And why I'm so plump the reason I'll tell ... "Who leads a good life, is sure to live well." What baron, or squire, or knight of the shire, Lives so well as a holy friar ...
Verses are a parody of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry. See British Museum catalogue.
Grego identifies a companion print: Monastic fare.
Plate numbered "Q. 2" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 28.1 x 21.5 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 63 in volume 1. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 27.5 x 21 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Eating & drinking
Gluttony
Monks - Subjects
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Eating & drinking
Gluttony
Monks
England > 1807
England > London > 1807
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8710454
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192681
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