Country life, contrasted with the pleasures of town [graphic]

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Title: Country life, contrasted with the pleasures of town [graphic]
Contributor: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, artist.
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [6 April 1807]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Apr. 6, 1807 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A coach drives into swampy water; the drunken coachman has dropped the reins, the footman at the back shouts at him; the occupants, an elderly man and two ladies, have opened the door and are screaming. There is a crescent moon
Description: Caption title from letterpress printed below image.
Imprint appears at top of image. Imprint in letterpress at bottom of third column: Published 6th April, 1807, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with slight loss of imprint at top of sheet.
Plate numbered '464' in the upper left corner.
Header to broadside: Written by Captain Morris, with additional stanzas by the late Mr. Hewerdine, marked by inverted commas.
Fourteen stanzas of verse arranged in three columns on broadside portion: In London I never know what to be at, enraptur'd with this, and transported with that, I'm wild with the sweets of variety's plan, and life seems a blessing to happy for man! ...
Number '464' in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 29.3 x 22.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1807
Etchings England London 1807
Material: etching and engraving with stipple ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Accidents
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Subjects: Accidents
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
England > 1807
England > London > 1807

Access: Public
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