print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1938,0613.15
- Title
- Object: Tithe Pig
- Description
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An obese and gouty parson (left) reclines in an arm-chair, inspecting through an eye-glass a sucking-pig which a buxom maidservant brings in on a dish. She shows it to the clerk, who sits beside the parson, with a paper: 'An Estimate of the Tythes of this Parish'. The latter sniffs at the pig's snout. Two dogs eagerly fawn on the maid. Through the doorway (right) a lean yokel sourly scratches his head, waiting for the verdict on his pig. The parson's swathed leg is supported on a stool; beside him are a bottle and glass, a crutch and chamber-pot. On the wall is a picture of a group of church spires, suggesting that he is a pluralist, though the room is bare and old-fashioned. 1 January 1790
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1790
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 279 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', VII, 1942)
The tithe pig was a favourite subject, indicating clerical gluttony as well as the grievance of tithes, cf. BMSats 4951, 6209, 6737, 6877, 9138.
Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 268 (reproduction).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1989/90 Nov-Jan, Glasgow Mus & AG, World of Thomas Rowlandson
1990 Jan-Mar, Leicester City AG, World of Thomas Rowlandson
1990/1 Nov-Jan, Maidstone Museum, World of Thomas Rowlandson
1991 Jan-Mar, Swansea, Glynn Vivian AG, World of Thomas Rowlandson
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1938,0613.15
