A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
A couple sit in two chairs, the man with his back to his wife is asleep with his hands resting on his large belly. The woman thin and with a forelorn look on her face sits in a large comfortable chair, looking out, her book at her side and a handkerc...
A slender man (left) reading a book complains to a second man (right) sitting opposite him, "Dangit sir I wish you would just blow your nose". The second man, who is very fat and has a very large, bulbous and ruddy nose that extends over the first man...
Description:
Title from caption inscribed within image in brown ink.
A watercolor sketch of two rotund monks in front of a entrance to monastery in a lane within gate and wall surround. One attends closely to a young lady with two baskets on her arms; the other reads, lounging on a bench with his one foot raised
Description:
Title from note in ink in lower right corner.
Subject (Topic):
Courtyards, Lust, Monasteries, Monks, Obesity, and Reading
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 2 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop's hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He ha...
Alternative Title:
Sinecure
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Chickens, Clergy, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), and Swine
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, artist
Published / Created:
[between 1830 and 1852]
Call Number:
Drawings G761 no. 2 Box D123
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A full-length caricature of an obese clergy man who wears a bishop's hat (?) and smokes a long pipe as he walks left. He carries a pig and a chicken under his left arm. He holds a Bible in his left hand, and he carries a bottle in his pocket. He ha...
Alternative Title:
Sinecure
Description:
Title from caption written below image.
Subject (Topic):
Avarice, Chickens, Clergy, Obesity, Pipes (Smoking), and Swine
