More ways than one, or, The patriot turn'd preacher
[London] : Pubd Novr 2d 1784. by E. Todd [i.e. Edward Hedges?], [1784]
Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue.
With "Price 1d" below image at lower left.
"The composition is based on Hogarth. The unknown publisher Todd seems to be a pseudonym for [Edward] Hedges."--Curatorial comments, British Museum online catalogue.
With 16 lines of verse etched in two columns beneath the lower caption text: 'How spruce will N------th beneath thee sit! / With Joy officiate as thy Clark! ... And, as the piercing Threat shall probe, / Be't thine to lead the choral Groan! [at foot of text] St James's Chrone Octr 21'.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
The interior of a church: Fox preaching, North as clerk sitting beneath him. Fox (right) in a high pulpit bends forward gesticulating with an expression of unctuous melancholy; he wears a plain coat and bands. North sits in the clerk's desk immediately under the pulpit, leaning back with folded hands. Both are directed to the left. A barrier separates the pulpit from the congregation; within it in profile to the left stands Sheridan, as pew-opener, taking a coin from a young woman whom he is ogling; she looks aside demurely. Kneeling devoutly with his elbows on the barrier, immediately opposite North, is Burke as an elderly woman in cap and cloak, wearing spectacles. In the background is a square pillar supporting two arches which are partly visible. In front of the pillar are members of the congregation. Cf. British Museum online catalogue.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.