The parsons hobby, or, Comfort for a Welch curate [graphic]

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16192838

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Title
The parsons hobby, or, Comfort for a Welch curate [graphic]
Alternative Title
Comfort for a Welch curate
Creator
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[1819]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pubd. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Abstract

"A tall lean parson bestrides a velocipede (see British Museum Satires No. 13399) outside a small thatched cottage (left) built against the slope of a mountain. His wife with four children, all five bare-legged, watch the (perilous) departure; she says: "Well my Dear I am quite pleased you have got a Hobby; you will now be able to get through your Duty with ease and comfort!" He looks back to say: "Comfort indeed my Dear! it is only ten Miles you know, I shall now perform the Service and be back by the time the kettle boils!--I hope they will build some more Churches in Wales, for I shall be able to undertake six of them!!!" In his pocket is a paper: 'Sermon on the benefit of Poverty'. The rough track descends towards a narrow valley (right). Beside the cottage is a ramshackle shed from which a pig looks out."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "348" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Temporary local subject terms: Parsons -- Hobbies -- Velocipedes.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Leaf 59 in volume 5.
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 : plate mark 25 x 36 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.5
Collection Title
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection/Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9257735
Object ID (OID)
16192838

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