IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76358 accession number: C.917-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black enamels. The figures stand on a grassy mound with a tree trunk at the back, rising from an elongated pink octagonal base which is hollow underneath and partially covered with blue-tinted glaze. The Clerk, on the viewer's right, has a ruddy complexion and brown hair, and wears a black hat, reddish-brown coat, green breeches, blue stockings and black shoes, and holds a lantern in his left hand. He grasps the parson's left arm to steady him and lead him to the churchyard.The parson, wears a black tricorn hat over a bluish-white wig, a black jacket, a pink and blue horizontally striped waistcoat with yellow buttons, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes with yellow buckles. He looks down and leans away from the clerk, holding a glass in his left hand, and clutching a green bottle to him with his right hand. He stands on his left leg and drags his right behind him as if unsteady and not wanting to go forward. object type: Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. An inebriated parson clutching a bottle being led by the parish clerk holding a lantern title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 12 March, 1909, lot 161; purchased for £2.16s. by S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London, with 10% commission on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76358 PEOPLE ------------------- cleric SUBJECTS ------------------- anti-clericalism TECHNIQUES ---------- off-white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1815 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1815 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain British and Continental Ceramics and Glass --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_917_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_917_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_917_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_917_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_917_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_917_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_917_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_917_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels