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The fawning priest and disappointed fool
Title
The fawning priest and disappointed fool [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden, [1746?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 30 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 36 x 27 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Garden -- Clergy: Jesuits -- Popery -- Popes: Benedict XIV(?) -- Pictures amplifying subject: executions -- Satan -- Jacobites: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46 -- Rosaries.
Notes
Title from item.
Publisher identified from address.
Printseller's announcement following imprint: ... where may be had veriety [sic] of political prints. Likewise old prints bought and sold. And Jappaning prints.
Twelve lines of verse in two columns below image: Priest: To you, my lord, I thus confess, I've been a slave, without success ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 21, 2009
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1746.
Etchings - England - London - 1746.
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