A clerical alphabet [graphic]

Description

Title: A clerical alphabet [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker
Contributor: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist.
Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: July 21, 1795.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Willm. Holland, 50 Oxford Street
Description: Title from caption below image.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Holland's exhibition is now open, admittance one shilling.
Text above title: Note. The idea of this print originated with Mr. W-n, who wrote the 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and the two last lines ...
Design consists of twenty-three figures in three rows, with lines of verse etched above each figure and two lines etched below the final two figures.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Clergy -- Verses on clergymen.
Watermark: 1797 J. Whatman.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 46.6 x 67 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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