<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Royalty, episcopacy, and law] [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Ireland, Samuel, -1800, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[approximately May 1788]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Satire on royalty, episcopacy and the law, after a print by Hogarth; a group of nine composite figures, the most prominent of which are a king, whose head is represented by a coin, a bishop whose head is a jew's harp, and a judge whose head is a gavel</dc:description><dc:description>Title and imprint from Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>Text continues : as they were perfectly discover'd by a telescope brouhgt to [the] greatest perfection since [the] last eclipse exactly engraved from the objects, whereby [the] curious may guess at their religion, manners, &amp;c.</dc:description><dc:description>Copy after Hogarth. See British Museum catalogue no. 1739.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 56</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of print: The same copy, the size of the plate somewhat diminished that is might suit S.I.'s book afterwards published.</dc:description><dc:description>On page 301 in volume 3.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>