An ass loaded wth. [church] preferments [print].

Accession number: 
PML 145850.222
Published: 
[England] : Published According to Act of Parliament, November 8th 1736.
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: 195 x 197 mm; plate mark: 240 x 209 mm; sheet: 261 x 229 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

In the space indicated in the title is a small engraving of a church.
This is a later impression, with date added to publication line and lacking the 8 lines of engraved verse at bottom below caption title.
Inserted as item 223 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Variant Title: 

Ass loaded with church preferments

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows an ass with the face of John Lynche, dean of Canterbury and son-in-law of William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is portrayed as the driver of the ass with a whip in one hand and a large book in the other. The ass's pack is lettered "Sine-cure of Bray" and its panniers are loaded with papers labelled with the names of the many offices that Lynch held. Beside the ass, a curate in clothing suggestive of poverty kneels, doffing his hat.

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