The vicar and Moses. [graphic] / (Plate II)Madan, D., active 1790-1799, printmaker[17 July 1795]eng"Graveside scene at night; a fat vicar swathed in a surplice and looking at a book by the light of a lantern held up by a thin, singing clerk, from whom he also takes some snuff; the open grave to left, the child's coffin beside it, mourners behind, shrouded so that all but one face is invisible, the church in the background; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Numbered '(Plate II)' in lower right below image.Second of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title.Thirty-two lines of verse (second half of the song) printed in two columns below title: Then Moses went on, Sir; the clock has struck one, ...Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.