Transubstantiation satirized., Samuel Ireland, circa 1794

Copy of the virgin seated in the clouds, feeding a naked child with irradiated head into the large hopper of a windmill; wafers, the product of the mill, falling onto a patera held up by a short figure in a white surplice; a stout priest, intended as a roman catholic, giving the sacrament to a kneeling figure at left, another kneeling behind; after livesay after hogarth; illustration to samuel ireland's 'graphic illustrations of hogarth' (vol. I, 1794, opposite p. 122). C. 1794 etching and aquatint. Date: circa 1794. Dimensions: Height: 223 mm (cropped); Width: 143 mm (cropped). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Samuel Ireland. Collection: British Museum. Transubstantiation satirized. (BM 1858,0417.480 1)