In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Five men, heads and shoulders only. Three of the men face each other. The man on the top left wears a nightcap and pince-nez on the tip of his long, hooked nose. The man on the top right looks down and wears the garb of a clergyman with a bishop's mitre on his head. The man on the bottom left wears a wig, a high stock and jabot and has a long nose. The man in the bottom center looks cross-eyed at the other men. The man on the bottom right has a very bulbous nose and face
Alternative Title:
Good morning to your nightcap
Description:
Two heads on left were copied for a print: Good Morning to your Nightcap. See Lewis Walpole Library impression (786.07.07.01)., Inscription in graphite pencil on verso: Original drawing for 'Good Morning to Your Nightcap' Pubd by S.W. Fores July 7, 1786., and Henry Kingsbury, British painter and engraver, fl. 1775-1804 (see Brisith Museum online catalogue).
Title devised by cataloger., Satire after Hogarth., Sheet trimmed to design with loss in upper and lower right corners., and Publication date conjectured from costume.
A thin emaciated Parson holds a 'tithe' in the form of a pig in a basket while a second Parson, obese with a huge puanch, raises a stick in the air and opens his mouth wide as if beginning an admonishment
Description:
Title, date, and artist attribution suggested by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.