Cotswold games [graphic].

Description

Title: Cotswold games [graphic].
Published / Created: 1794.
Publication Place: England
Publisher: Pubd. by Caulfield & Herbert
Abstract: "The Cotswold Games, with Robert Dover on horseback at lower centre, riding to left; illustration to James Caulfield's 'Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward III to the Revolution' (London: 1794); copy from woodcut prefixed to 'Annalia Dubrensia'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
A copy of a print published in Annalia Dubrensia in 1636.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Robert Dover, 1575-1641 -- Cotswold -- Gloucestershire: Dover's Hill -- Games: Olympics, Cotswold -- 17th-century games: cudget playing, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, throwing the sledge, topping the pike, guns discharged from the castle of boards -- 17th-century dances -- Bagpipes -- Hunting -- Coursing.
Robert Dover's name added below image in a later hand.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 24 x 15 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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