Accession number
PML 146857.146
Creator
Sayers, James, 1748-1823.
Published
[London] : Pubd. by H. Humphrey, 24th May 1800.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item no. 146 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 344 x 266 mm; plate mark: 361 x 272 mm; sheet: 406 x 302 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Written in pencil at foot of sheet: Dr Parr / Spital sermon.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Samuel Parr preaching in a pulpit, immediately under the sounding-board. In his left hand is a pipe from which rises a cloud of smoke inscribed "Exit in Fumo"; in his right hand is a pipe-stopper. From his mouth descends a billowing cloud of smoke inscribed "Ex Fumo non dare Lucem". Below him are the heads of men asleep, or yawning, or disgusted. In the lower right corner a woman puts up an umbrella as protection from the smoke, and a man angrily inspects his watch. From a gallery, heads with the lank hair of zealots, look down with angry dismay. Commentary on Parr's long Easter sermon attacking William Godwin's "Enquiry concerning political justice." Cf. George.
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