print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.2.9
- Title
- Object: The Tythe Pig
- Description
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Satire on the clergy: a farm where a parson is demanding a suckling pig, a tenth of the litter, as his tythe; the farmer's wife, nine other children clustered around her, offers her tenth baby to be supported on condition of giving the pig.
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 342 millimetres
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Width: 235 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A version of 1861,0518.937 published by Robert Sayer and John Smith (not described in BM Satires). The style suggests that both prints are based on the work of Louis Philippe Boitard, but it is not clear which print was copied from the other.
See also 1948,0214.500 for an earlier print with a similar subject and the same verses.
A watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 44.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.2.9