Pulpit extravaganzas [graphic].

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Title: Pulpit extravaganzas [graphic].
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: Octr. 26, 1789.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: Twelve carciatures of a clergyman delivering sermons from a pulpit with his clerk sitting below, satirizing the words etched above the clergyman
Description: Title etched below image.
Imprint repeated on the sheet without the title, with slight change in date: Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, October 23, 1789.
Two lines of verse below title: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ...
Publisher's advertisement below image on sheet without title: Lately pubd. The prince's bow, Old maids at a cat's funeral, English slavery, Meeting an old friend with a new face, The city assembly, all prints on the Irish embassy, &c. &c.
Publisher's announcement on the sheet with title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints and drawings. Admittance one shilling.
Cf. No. 7643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Both sheets joined and then cut into three strips.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv; May 1954.
Extent: 1 print on 2 sheets : sheet 30 x 41 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English