The holy friar.

Etcher
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
London : [s.n.], 1807/05/06.
Description
1 item ; sheet 42.3 x 25.4 cm.

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Notes
  • Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
  • Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".
  • Depiction: "I am a Friar of orders Grey, And down the valleys I take my way. I pull not Blackberry, Haw or Hip. Good store of ven'son does fill my scrip. My long Bead-roll I merrily chaunt, Wherever I walk no money I want. And why I'm so plump, the reason.
  • Numbered in plate, upper right: "Q2".
  • Signed, lower left: "Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury".
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 72-73
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