print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 1868,0808.7726
Title: Object: Church promotion, or how to scale a pulpit!
Description: O'Meara (see No. 11258), in back view, climbs a ladder which Mrs. Clarke (left) and the Duke of York (right) hold against a pulpit. In his pocket is a paper: 'A Sermon for Royalty'. He grasps the cushioned top of the pulpit with both hands, as if to haul himself up. Neither Mrs. Clarke nor the Duke is caricatured, both are in profile. She wears no hat, but a long white veil hangs from her head. A reticule filled with coins hangs from her arm. It is inscribed 'Indispensible' [see No. 9577]. He wears uniform with cocked hat and sword. An empty gallery stretches across the background on a level with the high pulpit. Below the title: '"O Meara deliver'd me your Letter yesterday morning. he wishes to preach before Royalty & I'll put him in the way for it." Hints from an Old Soldier, on the Act of rising in Church or State'. Feb 25 1809 Hand-coloured etching and stipple
Producer name: Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank; Published by: S W Fores
School/style
Production date: 1809
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 356 millimetres; Width: 252 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947) See No. 11216, &c. The (garbled) quotation is from the letter travestied in No. 11228; it runs '. . . he wishes much to preach before Royalty, and if I can put him in the way of it I will'. The print appears in No. 11322. Reid, No. 63.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Mary Anne Clarke; Associated with: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück; Associated with: Reverend O'Meara
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.7726

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