print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.1504
- Title
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Object: The Carrier or Methodist Pigeon
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Series: Veluti in Speculum
- Description
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Satire; a clergyman caricatured as a pigeon; perched on a stand in profile to right, looking up towards a window, gesticulating and holding an open book inscribed 'A / Funeral Sermon / on the / Political Death / of the Rev.d / John Horne / Vicar of New Brentford // Gay Clothing / Rioting / Electioneering / Devil enter'd // [...] // Bishops / Lying'; a devil supports the plinth on which he stands and another uses a pair of bellows under his tail; the congregation sits behind to left, some sleeping.
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1766-1767 (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bound with two others in paper wrappers with a frontispiece 'Veluti in Speculum'. See 2010,7081.1501 for the frontispiece and more information.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.1504
