Match against time, or, Wood beats blood and bone [graphic].

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Title: Match against time, or, Wood beats blood and bone [graphic].
Alternative Title: Wood beats blood and bone
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [17 April 1819]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. April 17, 1819, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside
Abstract: A horse and rider race a bicyclist as spectators cheer
Description: Title etched below image.
Text below title: This famous hobby was bred in Germany, after winning every thing there was shiped [sic] for Long Acre, patronized by the dandies and is now expected to out run all the first blood on the turf.
Plate numbered "344" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 140.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 36 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 819.04.17.02+
Collection Title: V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1819
Etchings England London 1819
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman 1824
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bicycles & tricycles
Horse racing
Horses
Racing
Spectators
Subjects: Bicycles & tricycles
Horse racing
Horses
Racing
Spectators
England > 1819
England > London > 1819
J. Whatman > 1824
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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