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- Title:
- Burning ye Rumps at Temple-Barr (no.11)
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/8 × 19 5/8 inches (26.4 × 49.8 cm), Image: 9 1/2 × 19 3/8 inches (24.1 × 49.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, upper right: "TBS"; center: "Down wth. the | Rumps"; lower center: "The | Cove- | nant."; lower right: "W. Hogarth Inv. delin. et sculp."; below image, lower center: "Bruning ye Rumps | at TEMPLE-BARR."; lower center: "That Beastly Rabble that came down | From all the Garretts in the Town | And stalls & Shop-boards in vast Swarms | With new chalk'd Bills & rusty Arms | To cry the Cause -- up heretofore | And bawl the Bishops -- out of Door | Are now drawn up in greater Shoals | To Roast and Broil us on the Coals | And all ye Grandees of our Members | Are Carbonading on the Embers; | Knights Citizens and Burgesses | Held forth by Rumps of Pigs & Geese, | That serve for Characters & Badges, | To Represent their Personages | Each Bonfire is a Funeral Pile, | In which they Roast & Scorch & Broil | And 'tis a Miracle we are not | Already Sacrific'd Incarnate | For while we Wrangle here & jar, | W' are Grylly'd all at Temple-Bar | Some on the Sign Post of an Ale hous | Hang in Effigie, on the Gallows, | Made up of Rags to personate | Respective Officers of State"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.29.55
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4797
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