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Pulpit extravaganzas

Title
Pulpit extravaganzas [graphic].
Published
London : Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, Octr. 26, 1789.
Physical Description
1 print on 2 sheets : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 30 x 41 cm
Notes
Title etched below image.
Imprint repeated on the sheet without the title, with slight change in date: Published by William Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street, October 23, 1789.
Two lines of verse below title: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ...
Publisher's advertisement below image on sheet without title: Lately pubd. The prince's bow, Old maids at a cat's funeral, English slavery, Meeting an old friend with a new face, The city assembly, all prints on the Irish embassy, &c. &c.
Publisher's announcement on the sheet with title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints and drawings. Admittance one shilling.
Cf. No. 7643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Summary
Twelve carciatures of a clergyman delivering sermons from a pulpit with his clerk sitting below, satirizing the words etched above the clergyman.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 29, 2009
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1789.
Etchings - England - London - 1789.
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