Four & twenty hobby-horses all of a row [graphic].

Description

Title: Four & twenty hobby-horses all of a row [graphic].
Alternative Title: Four and twenty hobby-horses all of a row
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 May 1819]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published May 1st, 1819, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Abstract: Design consists of male figures from various social classes, professions, ethnic groups, all caricatured, arranged in four horizontal rows all riding two-wheeled bicycles. Below four columns of verse commenting on the various types depicted: parson, lawyer, 'Cit', miser (a caricature of a Jewish man), dandy, tailor, balck man, Quaker, clowns, hunter, etc
Description: Title from caption below image.
Four columns of verse in letterpress below title: Hobby's the word, and, onward sliding, all London Town is set a-riding ...
Publisher statement in etched below image.
Printer statement in letterpress below verses.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 151-152.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37.9 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Aquatints England London 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bicycles & tricycles
Clowns
Ethnic stereotypes
Occupations
Subjects: Bicycles & tricycles
Clowns
Ethnic stereotypes
Occupations
England > 1819
England > London > 1819

Access: Public
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