A 40sh. freeholders only expedient for the salvation of boby [sic] & soul [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esq.

[London] : Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket ..., [July 1828?]

1 print : etching ; sheet 25.8 x 36 cm

wove paper

"The freeholder, a ragged Irish peasant, stands full-face, between a bloated priest (left) and a fashionably dressed young man; both tug at his coat-collar. The obese priest, who wears robes, with a large cross from neck to knee, holds up a print of the Devil smoking a pipe, in the bowl of which sits a tortured man; he says: Vote for your Priest or see this picture of your Soul in the next world. The other points behind him to an eviction scene, saying, Vote for your Landlord or see the real consequence in this World. In the background is a cluster of mud huts placarded Wanted Protestant Tenants for these Cabins. Men chase away a ragged family in one direction, and a pig in the other. Freeholder: Sure I'm bother'd [cf. BM Satires No. 8141] hadent I better be after voten for both your honors id would make the thing asier aney how. In one hand is his shillelagh, in the other his hat with a tobacco-pipe thrust in it."--British Museum online catalogue.

Forty shilling freeholders only expedient for the salvation of body and soul

English

November 11, 2010

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11, no. 15537