Shooting flying [graphic] / I.C. Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.

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Title: Shooting flying [graphic] / I.C. Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.
Alternative Title: Cockney-sportsmen ; plate 2d
Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1800 November 12
Copyright Date: [12 November 1800]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "The younger man leaps a low paling, firing at a flight of pigeons, but missing every bird. His fat companion, who is checked by a low stile (right), tries to catch his hat which his friend has knocked off."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Second of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen.
Title etched below image, following series title.
Extent: 1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 24 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9597
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 493
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 272