Paddy on horse-back [graphic].

Description

Title: Paddy on horse-back [graphic].
Alternative Title: Paddy on horseback
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: 1779 March 4
Copyright Date: [4 March 1779]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: W. Humphrey
Abstract: "An Irishman seated on a bull which is galloping across open country towards London, seen in the distance on the right., St. Paul's being visible. He wears a short jacket and ragged knee-breeches, his legs and feet are bare. His hair is dishevelled and he is urging on the bull with his hat, which is raised in his right hand. He sits facing the animal's tail, which he holds in his left hand. From his saddle-bag appear books: "St Pat . ." and "New System of Fortune Hunting"; a paper hangs out of it inscribed with a list of ladies with fortunes, beginning "Lady Mary Rotten Rump St James Square 30,000£". A sack inscribed "Potatoes" is tied to the bull in front of the saddle. A milestone shows that it is "IIII Miles from [London]".--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Printmaker and place of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1779.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1779.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Ethnic stereotypes.
Horses.
Irish--Caricatures and cartoons.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 5605
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 28