Price: $250.00
SKU: 94974
PUBLISHER: London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, in Fleet Street, & John Smith in Cheapside.
MEDIUM: Engraving,
DATE: c.1770.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 1/8 x 9 1/8" (30.8 x 23.2 cm).
DESCRIPTION: "Ralph's Wife and sow as gossips tell; : Both at a time, in pieces fell; : The Viscar comes the pig he claims. : And the good wife, with taunts in flames. : But she quite arch bow'd low and smil'd : gave Ralph the pig, and held the child. : The priest look'd warm the dame loo'd big, : Troth Sir. 'quoth she, no child no pig." <br><br> A satirical piece. A tithe is a type of payment given to church. Historically this payment was either a tenth of a family's income or agricultural produce. In this engraving, a family's pig has recently produced ten piglets. A parson is seen demanding one of them as payment. The farmers, however, offer their suckling tenth child.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Generally good condition, crease in lower left.
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