print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.882
- Title
- Object: The Church Militant
- Description
-
(For description see other impression).. 15 September 1779
Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
-
Height: 354 millimetres
-
Width: 250 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- States
(i) Proof before letters and inscription space not completely cleared; three tiers of scraped lines in lower right, some light patched below drums, book blank
(ii) reworked, almost horizontal single tier of parallel lines lower right, text on book: 'Fight / the good / fight', etc.; lettered with the title and 'From the Original Picture by John Bollett, in the possession of Carington Bowles, // 408 // Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the Act directs [15 December 1779; date supplied by Dorothy George]'.
Reissue with date erased [2010,7081.883]
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784 p. 117 no. 424, with the description 'The following 34 new and elegant humorous Prints, are finely executed from the capital Paintings of that eminent Artist the late John Collet, Esq. in the Possession of Carington Bowles. Each print is 10 inches wide and 14 inches deep. When framed and glazed they make a handsome Appearance and Fashionable Furniture, and are always kept ready finished. Price 2s. plain, or finely coloured from the paintings, 3s. each.'
Carington Bowles, 1790 p. 107 no. 441
See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.1693
- 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
- 2010,7081.882