[Scene of an accident with passengers spilling out of an overturned horse cart on their way to a county fair] [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- [Scene of an accident with passengers spilling out of an overturned horse cart on their way to a county fair] [graphic].
- Creator
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Contributor
- Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [not before 5 October 1810]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Abstract
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"The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description
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Title devised by cataloger.
Printmaker from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Reissue; imprint has been burnished from plate.
Publication information based on imprint on earlier state: Pubd. 5th October 1810 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 11629 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
First series statement appears above image; second series statement appears below image.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 191.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 24.9 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 35 in volume 1. - Provenance
- Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 25 x 36 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
- Collection Title
- V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1810
Etchings England London 1810
Watermarks (Paper) 1817 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1810
England > London > 1810
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9156570
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192675