The p-nt-ary race, or, The city jockies [graphic].

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Title: The p-nt-ary race, or, The city jockies [graphic].
Alternative Title: City jockies
Parliamentary race
Contributor: Cooper, Mary, -1761, publisher.
Published / Created: [1754]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act of Parliament, 1754, and sold by M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
Description: Title etched above image.
Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark.
'Price 6d.'
Eight stanzas of verse in four columns below image: O! Shade of Durfey grant me vit-a / To sing these jockies of the City ...
Temporary local subject terms: Elections: parliamentary elections, 1754 -- Elections: contest for representation of the City of London -- Bills: Jews Naturalization Bill, 1753 -- Jews: pedlar -- Race: horse race -- Jockies -- Gin-seller -- Elections: candidates -- Horses -- Grand stands -- Slingsby Bether, 1695-1758, 'Buzzard' -- Sir Robert Ladbroke, 1713-1773 -- Sir William Clavert, ?1703-1761 -- Allusion to Mary Squires, d. 1761.
Watermark: countermark I V.
Provenance: Gift of R.W. Ketton-Cremer; May 1962;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1754
Etchings England London 1754
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Barnard, John, 1681-1770
Glyn, Richard, Sir, 1711-1773
Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773
Subjects: Barnard, John, 1681-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Glyn, Richard, Sir, 1711-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
Beckford, William, 1709-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Gascoyne, Crisp, Sir, 1700-1761 > Caricatures and cartoons
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1754
England > London > 1754

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