A bankrupt cart!, or, The road to ruin in the east!! [art original]

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Title: A bankrupt cart!, or, The road to ruin in the east!! [art original]
Alternative Title: Road to ruin in the east!!
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1799]
Publication Place: London
Abstract: A plebeian family of 'cits' drive in a rough two-wheeled cart (aping a fashionable gig) drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing cocked hat and top-boots; his wife, wearing large feathers in her small straw cap, holds up a fan. Both are absurdly complacent. A boy and girl are crammed in. Behind rides a fat and grinning footman, with plodding dog. On the extreme right a newsboy with the 'London Gazette' blows his horn. Behind (left) is an open doorway inscribed 'Mash Brewer'; within are casks. The wall is inscribed 'Puddle Dock', and on it are two bills: 'Theatre Royal Covent Garden the Comedy of the Bankrupt with High Life Below Stairs and A House to be let in Grosvenor Square Suitable for a Genteel Family' (they appear to be bound for this house).
Description: Title and artist's signature inscribed below image in black ink.
Date supplied by cataloger.
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Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, September 1968; Acquisitions no.: 968-9-1-119.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 20.3 x 33 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 34 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1799
Graphite drawings British 18th century
Material: pencil with pen and black ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carriages & coaches
Families
Newspaper carriers
Subjects: Carriages & coaches
Families
Newspaper carriers
England > 1799
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: G.M. Woodward, A Bankrupt Cart! Or the Road to Ruin in the East!! The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.