Title from item., Engraved song sheet with an etching at top of plate. Music on two staves with interlinear words. Additional three stanzas below. Part for flute at foot of page., Plate numbered '42' in upper right corner., "To ye tune of ye Black Joke"--Lower right corner of plate., Opening words: Whence comes it that ye shining great, to titles born and awful state ..., Plate from: The Musical entertainer / George Bickham, volume1., Watermark: countermark E., and Annotation in an unidentified hand at bottom of sheet, recto.
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., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publish'd July 2nd, 1784, by J. Binns, Leeds, and J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, Pipes (Smoking), and Lanterns