Parson Adams & Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr Abraham Adams"

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Henry Fielding|James Sibbald|Thomas Rowlandson

1792

Parson Adams & Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr Abraham Adams" by Henry Fielding|James Sibbald|Thomas Rowlandson

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet (trimmed): 4 7/16 × 6 1/4 in. (11.3 × 15.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number

59.533.561(4)

Tags

FoodMenWomenSmoking

Art Historical Context

Step into the whimsical world of 18th-century English satire with this lively etching, *Parson Adams & Fanny as culprits before the Justice*, created in 1792. Drawn from Henry Fielding's novel *The Adventures of Andrews, and his friend Mr Adams*—a playful parody of sentimental fiction—the print captures a chaotic courtroom scene where the bumbling Parson Adams and virtuous Fanny face a comically inept country justice. Tags hint at the bustling details: men and women gathered amid food and pipe smoke, evoking the rowdy taverns and rustic follies of Georgian England. Renowned caricaturist Thoma...

About the Artist

British, 1707–1754|British, London 1757–1827 London

Parson Adams & Fanny examined as culprits before the country Justice, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr Abraham Adams"

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