print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.41.2
Description: Satire, scene from a Dance of Death, probably a long strip; Death seizing a fat clergyman about to eat a sucking pig, his gouty foot on a cushion Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton
School/style: British
Production date: 1790s
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 144 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 167 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (216); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; death; cleric; dance of death
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Kit Monkman
Funder name: With contribution from: British Museum Friends
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Kenneth Monkman
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.41.2
Conservation: Treatment: 01 Feb 2002

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