Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Fast day [copy 1].
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 07/Normal/Prints/Titles En-Fo GA 2014.00233
Identifier
ark:/88435/r494vt27s
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], 1812/03/20.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1812
Extent
1 item ; sheet 26.3 x 31.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 226
Grego II, p. 407 (Mar. 20, 1799)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Four learned doctors, dressed in their clerical vestments, are keeping in their own fashion a day set apart by the Church for general mortification. The portly four are seated at a well-furnished board, and trains of servants are, with respectful attention, bringing in fresh supplies - poultry, dainty meats and other delicacies. The well-stocked collegiate cellars have been laid under contribution. Bottles of choice vintage are standing in wine-coolers and in promising rows on the floor, beside a liberal jorum of punch in a Bowl for a Bishop. The nature of the private meditations of these epicurean worthies is thus made manifest, while the order of the repast is further set forth in a lengthy bill of fare irrevently written on a New Form of Prayer for the Fast Day, by way of menu.........
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Clergy—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Dinners and dining—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Fasts and feasts—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Household employees—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Hypocrisy—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6f607074-36e0-412e-bbd5-d8b86e9278ca/manifest