print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1876,0510.974
- Title
- Object: Choristers
- Description
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The choristers sit, full-face, in two pews in the choir of St. Patrick's, Dublin. In the front pew only the upper parts of the heads of four little choirboys appear. Behind are six surpliced men, singing. On the extreme left is Sir John Andrew Stevenson (?1760-1833), Vicar-Choral of St. Patrick's from 1783. The others are probably also portraits. Behind them a Gothic arcade extends across the design; above it are ranged the helmets, each draped with a tasselled scarf, and the cross-hilted swords of the Knights of St. Patrick.
1811?
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 336 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
The date is uncertain. The choir of St. Patrick's was used as the chapel of the Order. The absence of the banners of the Knights is unexplained. J. H. Bernard, 'The Cathedral Church of St. Patrick', ed. Oulton, 1941, p. 74.
(Supplementary information)
This print is likely to be a pirated copy after another held by the Museum and published by J Sidebotham, as McCleary pirated several satirical designs from the latter. See record for reg. no. 1935,0522.10.18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,0510.974