In outdoor setting, a full length depiction of a clergyman in black dress and bands, with long unkempt hair and glaring expression. In his hands he holds open a book which reads "Spirituous Hymns to be sung or said standing, sitting or lying mornings or evening."
Description:
Title from item., Early state, without volume and page numbers. Cf. Library of Congress copy of the later state., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death