A Church of England rector seated at table as a servant brings a roasted pig on a dish. Aquatint after G.M. Woodward.

  • Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
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Dec. 1 1791
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29458i
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A Church of England rector seated at table as a servant brings a roasted pig on a dish. Aquatint after G.M. Woodward. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The subject and the verses are derived from Richard Graves, The spiritual Quixote, or, The summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose: a comic romance, London 1773, chapter 4, where they appear in a parody of the speech of Jaques beginning "All the world's a stage" in Shakespeare's 'As you like it', Act II, scene vii. The rector received tithes from his parishioners, who could pay them in the form of a pig

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London (50 Oxford St.) : W. Holland, Dec. 1 1791.

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1 print : aquatint, with etching ; platemark 36.3 x 25.7 cm

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The rector. Then the rector / In sleek surcingle with good tithe pig stuff'd; / With eyes up-swoln, and shining double chin, / Full of wise nods and orthodox distinctions: / And so he gains respect.

Notes

One of six aquatints in a set showing six of the seven clergymen described by Richard Graves in The spiritual Quixote: The curate, The pedagogue, The priest, The vicar, The rector, The old incumbent, and The Welch parson. Five of the aquatints are listed in British Museum, loc. cit. The present print is mentioned on p. 748 n. 2 as missing from the impressions in the British Museum set; a print of the "old incumbent" is also absent and may not exist at all

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VI, London 1938, pp. 748-749, nos. 7777-7781 (omitting this print)

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Wellcome Collection 29458i

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