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Master Fang the parish beadle
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Title
Master Fang the parish beadle [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr.
Publication
[London] : Pub. June 12 1829 by T. McLean 26 Haymarket sole publisher of P. Prys caricatures - none are original without T. McLeans name, [12 June 1829]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 36.8 x 25.8 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Series title etched above image.
Paul Pry is the pseudonym of William Heath.
Not in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Summary
"Lyndhurst (see No. 15705), in his Chancellor's wig, is dressed as a beadle in gold-laced cocked hat and coat over his own black knee-breeches. He holds a tall (beadle's) staff representing the mace; a pouch representing the Purse of the Great Seal hangs from his left arm. He stares fixedly. Above his head: 'There's a great deal of trouble with some of our Wards'. After the title: 'Look at me--on't See--don't see I'm the Beadle of Parish &c'. Below the title: '"He Sir that takes pity on decayed men--and gives them Suits of durance; he that sets up his rest to do more exploits with his Mace--than a Morris pike--vide Shakspeare' ['Comedy of Errors', iv. iii]"--British Museum online catalogeue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 18, 2024
Series
Parish characters in ten plates / by Paul Pry Esqr. ; pl. 4th
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1829.
Etchings - England - London - 1829.
Artists' devices.
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