The pleasures of the turf [graphic].

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Title: The pleasures of the turf [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1759]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A gentleman who wears fool's cap, carries a bauble in one hand and a bell (which he rings) in the other. He is accompanied by another gentleman who carries a halbred as they driving four geese and four turkeys before them on the road "To London" as the sign-post states. The former gentleman says, "This vastly pretty." His companion responds, " This is fine sport, only I am very cold."
Description: Title engraved above image.
Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner.
Copy in reverse of a print of the same title published by Edwards & Darly 27 October 1756. See British Museum catalogue no. 3407.
Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier.
Related print identifies the two gentlemen as the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Rockingham: Now goose, now turkey, or, The present state of England. See British Museum catalogue no. 3409.
Plate from: England's remembrancer. London, 1759.
Provenance: Suckling.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 8.6 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1759
Etchings England London 1759
Book illustrations
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic): Geese
Traffic signs & signals
Turkeys
Subjects: Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
Geese
Traffic signs & signals
Turkeys
England > 1759
England > London > 1759

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