Vicar & Moses
A stout man wearing a wig and clerical bands dozes in a chair, his gouty bandaged leg supported by a pillow. A thin companion at right reads at a table that supports two lit candles. A dog sleeps on the floor next to the reader's chair.
Artwork Details
- Title: Vicar & Moses
- Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
- Publisher: William Holland (British, 1757–1815)
- Date: 1786
- Medium: Etching and aquatint; before publication line
- Dimensions: Plate: 5 5/8 × 8 1/4 in. (14.3 × 20.9 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 3/8 in. (21 × 28.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.541.21
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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