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The apostate parson   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The apostate parson
Description
English: A bishop (r.) standing behind an altar-rail, holds out both hands over the head of a kneeling clergyman. A demon kneels on the ground beside the latter; another has crept under his cassock, from which the tips of two wings project. Over the door is a picture of the Last Supper with Judas as a prominent figure. The lid of a large chest (l.) is slightly raised, from it hangs a paper inscribed: "I Suit of Scarlet & Gold, I Suit White & Silver, I Suit Blue & Silver, i Suit Flower'd Silk, i Suit Black Silk, I Black Velvet Surtout." On the Chest is pasted a label: "Left to Messrs Panchauld & Fo . . ." Paris. On the ground is a book, 'A Course


of Humanity on Miss S------rs'.
Beneath the design is engraved: "It is true I have Suffer'd the infectious hand of a Bishop to be wav'd over me, whose Imposition like the Sop given to Judas is only a Signal for the Devil to enter. &c.". 14 April 1772


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Depicted people Representation of: John Horne Tooke
Date 1772
date QS:P571,+1772-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 206 millimetres
Width: 257 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1872,0713.645
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The scene represents the "infectious hand of a bishop" ordaining Horne, see BMSat 4863, 4866. The inscription is a quotation from a letter of his to Wilkes in 1766. The list in the trunk is identical with that sent by Horne to Wilkes in Paris, 25 May 1767, together with the clothes which he left in Wilkes's care (as unsuited to his clerical calling and to the English taste), writing "If you have any fellow feeling, you cannot but be kind to them; since they too, as well as yourself, are outlawed in England; and on the same account - their superior worth". In the course of their quarrel Horne accused Wilkes of having pawned these clothes. See Stephens, 'Memoirs of Horne Tooke', i. 76 ff. For the quarrel between Wilkes and Horne, see BMSat 4861, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-0713-645
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