The country crier [graphic].

Description

Title: The country crier [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 December 793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Decr. 16th 1793, by Robt. Sayer and Company, Fleet Street, London
Abstract: "The crier, his mouth wide open, with an angry expression, shakes his bell in the faces of three gaping and alarmed yokels (left). He wears a long old-fashioned coat, broad cocked hat and wig, and holds a cane. A young man with a pitchfork (right) loiters complacently. A path leads to a farmhouse (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Probably from the series of Drolls.
Three lines of text below image: Oyes! Oyes! This is to guie Notice, That Alice Grunt has lost from out her Stye last Night at 25 Minits past 10 o Clock two Pigs the one a black un 'tother Caroty un whoever will bring Um to the said alice Grunt - Or give inflammation where they have stolen or strayed shall have her thanks and the first sucking Pig from the Breed of old Nanny at Lammas day next - God save the King.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. v.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.9 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 24 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Agricultural facilities
Agricultural laborers
Bells
Pitchforks
Town criers
Subjects: Agricultural facilities
Agricultural laborers
Bells
Pitchforks
Town criers
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

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