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The curate
Title
The curate [graphic].
Publication
London : Pubd. Decr. 1, 1790, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St., [1 December 1790]
Physical Description
1 print : aquatint & etching ; plate mark 36.1 x 25.5 cm, on sheet 43 x 27 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Clergy: curates -- Interiors: churches -- Churches: pulpits -- Sleeping churchgoers -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's As you like it, ii, 7, 143.
Notes
Title etched above image.
After Woodward. Cf. British Museum catalogue.
Two lines of verse from Shakespeare's As you like it below image: ------ and first, -- the curate, ... .
Summary
"One of a set of five, [Possibly there is a missing print: ? 'The Rector'] see BMSats 7778-81. A curate stands in profile to the right at a reading-desk in a country church, reading from a large book on which both hands are placed. He wears a surplice over spurred jack-boots. Behind him (left) steps ascend to the pulpit, below (right) the clerk in his box leans back asleep. Another sleeping man leans against the clerk's box. In the background is seen the end of a gallery in which six persons are seated."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 05, 2006
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 7777
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1790.
Aquatints - England - London - 1790.
Etchings - England - London - 1790.
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