engraving on thin wove paper, slight browning and surface dirt, some minor handling creases,
Davison (William) of Alnwick.
Curate Going On Duty,
£45
Alnwick, , c.1816.
the tenth from a series of forty two satires produced by William Davison (1781-1858), noted as a pioneering apothecary as well as a printer and publisher of Bondgate Street in Alnwick. It depicts a mirthless curate, with nose and chin as sharp as the brim of his hat, in a hunched posture on the back of his weary horse as they plod slowly past an inn where three grinning drinkers look on..
170 by 235mm (6¾ by 9¼ inches).


