- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [6 July 1807]
- Call Number:
- 807.07.06.01.1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A jovial countryman leans on a rustic railing next to a tree, to address a fat elderly parson on horseback (riding to the left). He asks, "Ha! Ha, the knaust Doctor I be a rum fellow, Canst thee tell me why a parsons horse be like a king?" The parson answers with a grin, "Why you rogue, because it is guided by a minister." He is red-faced and freckled and prosperous looking, with a round belly; he carries a sermon in his pocket whose title is "Sermon to be prea[ched] ..."
- Alternative Title:
- Dignity of a parsons horse
- Description:
- Plate numbered '136' in upper right corner., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Cf. No. 10904 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8 for description of later state with altered imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Edmeads & Co.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. July 6th, 1807 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy and Joking
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A riddle expounded, or, The dignity of a parsons horse [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [not before 1781]
- Call Number:
- 781.00.00.32
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed., and Identity of subject conjectured by cataloger.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Greenaway, Stephen.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A shadow in its departure Aet. 68, 1781. Ps. CIX.22. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Humphrey, G. (George), 1773?-1831?, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 March 1780?]
- Call Number:
- 780.03.20.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Half length portrait of an elderly clergyman in profile to the right with a long sharp nose and receding chin."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and questionable year of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sitter identified as Benjamin Buckler (1718-1780), fellow of All Souls, Oxford, where there is a portrait of him ascribed to Gainsborough. See British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 20 by H. Humphrey, Old Bond Str
- Subject (Name):
- Buckler, Benjamin, 1718-1780,
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Benjamin B. [graphic].
- Creator:
- Overton, Henry, 1675 or 1676-1751, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1750]
- Call Number:
- 750.00.00.18
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image and two lines of verse., Publication date inferred from Overton's death date., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image and above title: Two men there are the inward & the out, whom Satan to insnare [sic] still hovereth about ..., Two lines of verse below title: Sing Whitfield and Webber, for ever and ever., Subject identified in a note in 18th-century hand at bottom of sheet as Rev. George Whitefield., Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits ... in the British Museum., and Temporary local subject terms: Wall-eyed.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Robert Webber, A.B. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1733]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
- Alternative Title:
- Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., On page 53 in volume 1. Plate mark 170 x 121 mm., and Above image: a note in Steevens's hand: See Mr. Nichols Biographical anecdotes &c., edit. 3d, p. 172.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
- Subject (Topic):
- Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcom [sic] aetat. XXII. No recompence but love. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1733]
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 733.00.00.90 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Copy in reverse after Hogarth's portrait, with the addition of a clergyman behind Malcolm holding up a wedding ring, and, to left, a view of her execution in Fleet Street. Sarah Malcolm, shown three-quarter length and seated as she leans with her hands on a table to left, looking back over her left shoulder. She wears a white apron and a white shawl over her head. The unidentified printmaker has added a piece of paper and pen and ink stand on the table
- Alternative Title:
- Sarah Malcom and Sarah Malcolm
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue: March 1732/3., and Mounted to sheet 226 x 236 mm; with leaf from the Newgate calendar (p. 255-6) about her crime.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Malcolm, Sarah, approximately 1710-1733,
- Subject (Topic):
- Murderers, Clergy, Criminals, and Hangings (Executions)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sarah Malcom [sic] aetat. XXII. No recompence but love. [graphic]
7.
- Creator:
- Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [27 April 1811]
- Call Number:
- Portraits P258 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Samuel Parr, half-length, slightly turned to the left, dressed in an academic gown with bands at his neck and with a powdered bob-wig on his head, drapery behind, illustration to 'Contemporary Portraits' (1811)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Reverend Samuel Parr, L.L.D.
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Plate from: The British Gallery of contemporary portraits. London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ... by J. M'Creery ..., 1813-1822., and Mounted on secondary paper support.
- Publisher:
- Published April 27, 1811, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Parr, Samuel, 1747-1825,
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Rev. Samuel Parr L.L.D from an original picture by J. Opie, Esq. R.A. in the possession of T.W. Coke, Esq. M.P. / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 20 April 1774.
- Call Number:
- Portraits H675 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A half-length portrait of The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, dissenting minister at Spitalfields, looking forward, with body turned to the left, in wig and bands; a curtain behind, open on the left to reveal two shelves of book with only one spine title legible, "Bible"; oval frame
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., "Carington Bowles excudit"--Centered below image., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Hitchin, Edward, 1725 or 1726-1774,
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases and Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Reverend Mr. Edward Hitchin, B.D. [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- May 1, 1787.
- Call Number:
- 787.05.01.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames numbered 'x' and 'xi': representing a seducer and a disgraced minister
- Alternative Title:
- Petulent barrister
- Description:
- Titles from text below images. and Plate from?: "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1787, v. xix, page 149.
- Publisher:
- Published by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, British, and Seduction
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The sedate mistress The petulent barrister. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dunkarton, Robert, approximately 1744-1811, printmaker, publisher
- Published / Created:
- [approximately April 1806]
- Call Number:
- Portraits H217 no. 1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait, three-quarter length, seated in profile to left, wearing clerical statements, bands and wigs, right hand resting on papers scattered on a table, in front of books; after Kettle
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger based on finished print in the British Museum online catalogue., Printmaker, artist, and publication data from finished print in the British Museum online catalogue., and Note on finished state: "Engraved from a Picture in the Vestry Room of St Martin's in the Fields, and Published at the Request of the Vestry and Inhabitants".
- Publisher:
- Robert Dunkarton
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Hamilton, Anthony, 1739-1812,
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Anthony Hamilton, DD, FRS & SA] [graphic].