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The two-panel cartoon lampoons the increasingly conspicuous High Church / Anglo-Catholic ritualism of Victorian Anglican clergy. In the first scene, a young curate “suddenly takes extreme views” and adopts an exaggerated new clerical style of dress, convinced that it will have “a wonderful effect.”
The second panel supplies Punch\'s joke. Having experienced the practical consequences of his new ecclesiastical fashion, the curate abandons it, concluding that “there is not much in Sartorial Christianity.”
The deliberately provocative title “A Re-Converted Pervert” uses pervert in its older religious sense of one who has turned from the accepted faith or religious position. The curate\'s flirtation with extreme High-Church practice has therefore been “re-converted” by something much more mundane: the inconvenience of his clothing.
An unusually appealing piece of Victorian Anglican satire, capturing contemporary Protestant suspicion of ritualism, clerical dress, and the Catholic Revival within the Church of England.
The reverse contains additional Punch text and the illustrated feature “Dock Leaves.”
Condition
Original 1865 leaf with general age toning, scattered foxing and spotting, and substantial binding/removal loss and irregularity along the left margin, as shown. Main cartoon and printed content remain complete and strongly presentable. Please examine photographs for exact condition.
Anglo Catholic, Anglican, Church of England, Ritualism, Oxford Movement, Catholic Revival, curate, Victorian clergy, clerical dress, Re-Converted Pervert, Sartorial Christianity, 1865 Punch, Victorian satire, religious cartoon, antique print
