The Church Choristers, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1773

Satire on unsophisticated singers. Eight male singers, heavily caricatured, in a box pew inside a gothic church are singing from a book; one man on the right plays a recorder. Behind, on the left, the bust of a man is attached to the wall; on the right is a hatchment with a verse below reading, 'stephen and time / are now both even / stephen beat time / now time beat stephen'; after epitaph added. 1773 hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching. Date: 1773. Dimensions: Height: 354 mm; Width: 250 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Church Choristers (BM 2010,7081.881)