The taylor turn'd jockey, or, Goose upon goose [graphic]

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Title: The taylor turn'd jockey, or, Goose upon goose [graphic]
Alternative Title: Taylor turned jockey, or, Goose upon goose
Tailor turned jockey, or, Goose upon goose
Goose upon goose
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1780?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Text etched in upper right corner of design: A poor taylor riding against time for a bushell of cucumbers. NB. A dung!
Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' implements: Shears -- Reference to tailors' goose -- Emblems: Cabbages -- Cucumbers -- Slang: Dung -- Goose mounted by tailor -- Yard-stick used for a whip -- Spatterdashes -- Male costume: Hats, 1780 -- Macaroni, 1780 -- Game-cocks' spurs worn by tailor.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 13 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Etchings England London 1780
Engravings England London 1780
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1780
England > London > 1780

Access: Public
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