The vicar and Moses [graphic].

Description

Title: The vicar and Moses [graphic].
Contributor: Binns, John, -1796, publisher.
Wallis, J. -1818, publisher.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Published / Created: [2 July 1784]
Publication Place: Leeds
Publisher: Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Abstract: A song sheet, all engraved, with an oval image of an obese clergyman with a pipe in hand walking beside the caricatured figure of Jewish man, who carries a lantern, printed above two staves of music with the first verse, above 16 verses in three columns. On the left behind them is building with a lean-to while on the right in the distance across a body of water is a church with a steeple
Description: Title engraved above image.
Other editions attribute the text to George Alexander Stevens (1710-1784) in English short title catalogue.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark.
Provenance: Michael S. Kemp; August 2020.
Extent: 1 print : circular image 22 cm, on plate 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs
Musical works
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Etchings England Leeds 1784
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image and notated music
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Ethnic stereotypes
Intoxication
Pipes (Smoking)
Lanterns
Subjects: Clergy
Ethnic stereotypes
Intoxication
Pipes (Smoking)
Lanterns
England > 1784
England > Leeds > 1784

Access: Public
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