City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]

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Title: City sportsmen, or, The first of September a ballad. [graphic]
Alternative Title: First of September
Contributor: Wallis, J. -1818, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Sepr. 1st 1792 by J. Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street
Abstract: A group of sportsmen stand amongst the gravestones in a churchyard cemetary aiming their guns at a flock of birds. Their hunting dogs run toward the birds. In a grave behind a tombstone (left), a gravedigger cowers in fear, a skull and pick axe beside him. In the distance the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral (?).
Description: Caption title printed in letterpresss below etching.
Imprint engraved below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 45 x 29 cm.
Provenance: Marlborough Rare Books; February 1999.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Ballads
Broadsides .
Etchings England London 1792
Material: etching ;
Subject (Topic): Cemeteries
Game bird hunting
Gravedigging
Hunting dogs
Poultry
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Cemeteries
Game bird hunting
Gravedigging
Hunting dogs
Poultry
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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