The bargain a specimen of Smithfield eloquence. [graphic]

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Title: The bargain a specimen of Smithfield eloquence. [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Satire on horse-dealing: a dealer stands beside a horse in poor condition on which sits a child, probably his son; potential customers examine the horse's teeth and hind hoof; the dealer's patter is reproduced below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Date of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Bottom half of plate consists of a speech bubble (resembling a scroll at bottom) emanating from the mouth of a horse trader; the seventeen lines spoken by him in praise of the horse begin: Now hark you me now Master, you shall have him for five pounds; I never saw ne'er a horse for the money that cou'd go his paces better nor this horse in all my born days ...
Temporary local subject terms: Bargaining: Smithfield bargain.
Watermark.
Mounted to 34 x 41 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Annotated by Bowditch: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.8 x 21.4 cm, on sheet 29 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Watermarks (Paper)
Watermarks (Paper) I. Villedary
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horses
Selling
Negotiating
Subjects: Horses
Selling
Negotiating
England > 1770
England > London > 1770
I. Villedary
Maidment, Brian > Donor

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