A Journeyman Parson with a Bare Existence, Robert Dighton, between 1782 and 1783

Satire: a dining room with a parson's family of four around a table eating beans, while he sits on the right, gnawing a bone, in a poor interior of a wooden house. C. 1782/3 hand-coloured mezzotint. Date: between 1782 and 1783. Dimensions: Height: 345 mm; Width: 246 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A Journeyman Parson with a Bare Existence (BM 1935,0522.1.49)