published according to act of Parliament, [approximately 1736]
Call Number:
736.11.08.01.2+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
An ass with panniers, driven by Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury who carries a whip in one hand and a book in the other. The ass has the face of Dr. Lynch, Dean of Canterbury, son-in-law of Wake who bestowed manu preferments on the Dean. A poorly fed and clothed clergyman kneels on one knee before the ass and salutes the beast, who turns his face away. In the pannier, which is marked "Sinecure of Bray", lie many labels or packages inscribed with the names of Dr. Llynch's preferments
Alternative Title:
Ass loaded wth church preferments and Ass loaded with church preferments
Description:
Title from item., Publication date inferred from dated impression of this print in the Pierpont Morgan Library., Publication date in British Museum catalogue: ca. 1735., The word 'church' in title is represented by an image of a church building., Bowditch's ms. annotations on the mounting sheet., and Mounted to 34 x 42 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wake, William, 1657-1737 and Lynche, John, 1697 or 1698-1760
"Satire on Lord Bute in the form of a reply to Henry Howard's bawdy ballad, "The Queen's Ass" (BM Satires 3870): the zebra kicks Howard, who has fallen to the ground, behind him a group of men comprising John Fielding, the three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, and another who may be identified as the man referred to in the verse below as "M-re [who] sally'd forth the fair Sex to relieve"; on the right, Bute, dressed in tartan and wearing a boot, riding a tamed British Lion; a Jewish stockbroker in the stocks; and George Whitfield looking into a mirror which reflects the image of an ass. In the background Charles Churchill, wielding a stick, chases off Bute's supporters, the journalists Arthur Murphy and Tobias Smollett, who raise their hands in surprise. Engraved inscriptions, title and verses in two columns by "Fartinando", to be sung to the tune of "The Ass in the Chaplet"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Answer to Harry Howard's ass
Description:
Caption title below etching., Engraved broadside poem illustrated with etching at top of sheet (late mark 30.1 x 20 cm). Etching signed: J. Jones delin et sculpt., Harry H----d's = Henry Howard., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., The lion bears some resemblance to those designed by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale for the Ladies Amusement (first published by Sayer in 1760), especially plate 108, and was perhaps copied from his work. Cf. British Museum online catalogue., Ten stanzas of verse below title: Permit me good people (a whimsical bard) and snarl not [the] critical class ..., and Mounted to 35 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Jews, Clergy, England, National emblems, British, Stocks (Punishment), and Zebras