The pleasures of the turf [graphic].

Description

Title: The pleasures of the turf [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Edwards, George, 1694-1773, publisher.
Published / Created: [27 October 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act, Oct. 27, 1756, by Edwards & Darly, facing Hungerford in the Strand
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.
Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather will flock together, Like to like, as the Devil said to the Collier.
Plate from: A political and satyrical history of the years 1756 and 1757. London : Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Mounted to 21 x 30 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 7.9 x 11 cm, on sheet 10 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1756
Etchings England London 1756
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
Subjects: Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 > Caricatures and cartoons
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1756
England > London > 1756

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.