The Canonical Beau, or Mars in the Dumps, John Goldar, 1768

Interior where three young ladies, two elderly women and a pug dog are clustered fawning around a clergyman, to the dismay of a fashionably dressed man who sits disgruntled at the other end of the sofa to left, his large dog sitting at his feet with its head in his lap; a book between them open at a page inscribed 'the church triumphant / cedunt arma togae' and a picture of a martyr burning at the stake on the wall behind; after collett. 1768 etching and engraving. Date: 1768. Dimensions: Height: 261 mm (image); Height: 333 mm; Width: 376 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Canonical Beau, or Mars in the Dumps (BM 1954,1103.397)