The musical score with lyrics of a drinking song "The jolly Bacchanalians" with a copy of William Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation" which shows a large party of men smoking, drinking, and singing around a table with a large bowl in the center. Several of the men are clearly intoxicated, one has fallen off his chair, lost his wig and is sprawled on the ground
Alternative Title:
Jolly Bacchanalians
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: Universal harmony, or, The gentleman & ladies' social companion. London : Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1746., Engraved throughout; illustrated with a design after Hogarth's painting 'A midnight modern conversation' at top of plate., and "P. 55"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for the proprietors & sold by J. Newbery at the Bible & Sun in St. Paul's Church Yard
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