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The enraged vicar
Title
The enraged vicar [graphic] / Rowlandson 1805.
Publication
[London] : [R. Ackermann], [1805]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 18.1 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Publisher from the British Museum online catalogue.
Two lines of verse below title: To see them rattle, howl and tear, by Jove twould make a parson swear.
One of a group of prints on the topic of "miseries," etched by Rowlandson and issued in several series by Ackermann, that were later collected and published as the volume: Rowlandson, T. Miseries of human life. [London] : Published December 14, 1808, by R. Ackermann ..., [1808]. See British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A fox (left) is closely pursued by hounds who are followed by four riders, leaping the wall (right) of a formal garden: beds set in gravel, with box borders, some having bushes clipped into birds and circles. A fat parson (left) runs up in furious anger to meet the invasion. Behind him is the church, and near it an old gabled house, partly hidden by large trees. Next a roller (right) is a board: 'Stee[l] Traps Spring Guns set in this Garden'."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10861
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 120
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1805.
Etchings - England - London - 1805.
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