Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The holy friar.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 09/Normal/Prints/Titles H GA 2014.00289
Identifier
ark:/88435/1g05fk69b
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1807/05/06.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1807
Extent
1 item ; sheet 42.3 x 25.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 72-73
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
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 I'll tell, Who leads a good life is sure to live well. What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire Lives half so well as a Holy Friar? After supper of Heav'n I dream, But that is fat pullets and clouted cream. Myself by denial I mortify, With a dainty bit of a Warden pye. I'm cloth'd in sackcloth for my sin, With old Sack wine I'm lin'd within, A chirping cup is my Matin song, And the vesper's bell is my bowl - ding dong! What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire Lives half so well as a Holy Friar?"
Numbered in plate, upper right: "Q2".
Signed, lower left: "Design'd by Sir E. Bunbury".

Discovery Information

Subject
Friars—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Gluttony—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Monasteries—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f89d43ce-9727-4875-af4a-fa2eaf7d6057/manifest