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National Museums Liverpool 12.3.26.2
Source Description:
"The Tythe Pig" engraved by J.S. Muller after Boitard, 1751. "In Country Village lives a Vicar, / Fond - as all are - of Tythes and Liquor, / To Mirth his Ears are seldom Shut, / He'll Crack a Joke, and laugh at Smut; / But when his Tythes he gathers in, / True Parson then...
Source Description:
"The Tythe Pig" engraved by J.S. Muller after Boitard, 1751. "In Country Village lives a Vicar, / Fond - as all are - of Tythes and Liquor, / To Mirth his Ears are seldom Shut, / He'll Crack a Joke, and laugh at Smut; / But when his Tythes he gathers in, / True Parson then - no Coin! no Grin! / On Corn, on Hay, on Bird, on Beast, / Alike lays hold the Churlish Priest. / Hob's Wife and Sow - as Gossips tell / Both at a Time in Pieces fell; / The Parson comes, the Pig he claims / and the good Wife with Taunts inflames; / But she, quite Arch, bow'd low and smil'd, / Kept back the Pig, and held the Child: / The Priest look'd warm, the Wife look'd big, / Z[oun]ds, Sir! quoth she, no Child, no Pig."
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Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares
Pattern Type: Genre Scenes
Date: c. 1757-61 Dimensions: - Diameter: 8.82 in (22.40 cm)
- Height: 1.06 in (2.70 cm)
Maker: Unknown Printer: John Sadler
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware (so-called delftware) plate printed in black by John Sadler, Liverpool, with "The Tythe Pig", a satire on the tythes or taxes that had to be paid to the parish priest. The priest claims a pig but the farmer's wife thwarts him by adding the condition that he must take the baby. The print is signed "John Sadler" to one...
Description:
Tin-glazed earthenware (so-called delftware) plate printed in black by John Sadler, Liverpool, with "The Tythe Pig", a satire on the tythes or taxes that had to be paid to the parish priest. The priest claims a pig but the farmer's wife thwarts him by adding the condition that he must take the baby. The print is signed "John Sadler" to one side and "Liverp" to the other side. In exactly this form the print is found also on tin-glazed mugs, where it may also have the accompanying poem. In the same form the print is also found on Chaffers' Liverpool porcelain. An adapted version was used a few years later by Sadler for printing Wedgwood's creamware. Curiously, the version of the print Sadler used on tiles is different: instead of the church being behind the priest and the farmhouse behind the farmer, they are the other way round.
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