print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.9043
- Title
- Object: Clerical humility and modern march of piety.
- Description
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A fat bishop leans back, eyes closed, and with a sour expression, in a lumbering old-fashioned state coach, with a large mitre standing on the roof. A fat coachman flourishes his whip; the hind-quarters only of the wheelers are within the design. Two self-important footmen in ornate liveries and holding staves stand behind the coach; they look down derisively at a thin erect and cheerful-looking curate on a miserably plodding ass, whom they have just passed. One says: 'I say, old friend, you seem to be in the wrong road—see how we thrive—Master's praying for another benefice and you are fasting without one.' They are on an open country road; behind (left) is a large church or cathedral. The panels of the coach are decorated with crests; on the door are mitre, coronet, and crosier; on the hammer-cloth is a mitre. Below the title: '"Humble-minded, sober, hospitable—Not given to wine nor greedy of filthy Lucre"—Timothy' [see BM Satires No. 15798]. 24 June 1829
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)
For Church Reform, wrongly anticipated, see No. 15791, &c. The contrast between the rich cleric and the poor parson is traditional, cf. Nos. 14568, 14755, &c., 17337.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.9043
