01: GEORGIAN AND REGENCY CARTOONISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS
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16 A VESTRY DINNER signed and inscribed with title on reverse pen ink and watercolour 6 3⁄4 x 9 1⁄2 inches Published by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, as an etching, on 21 April 1795 Literature: M Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in The British Museum, vol vii, 1793-1800, London: The British Museum, 1942, no 8770 Exhibited: ‘English Watercolours’, Leger Galleries, November-December 1972
But ’ere we have settled about the relieving, Each famished and half-starv’d poor sinner, I cries in the midst of our sorrow and grieving, ‘Next We’n’sdays a Vestry Dinner’. (J C Cross, ‘The Vestry Dinner’, verse 3, lines 5-8)