A shew heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard [graphic].

Description

Title: A shew heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard [graphic].
Alternative Title: Show heifer going to Leinster Stable Yard
Contributor: McCleary, William, active 1799-1820, publisher.
Published / Created: [1820]
Publication Place: Dublin
Publisher: Pub. by McCleary, 21 Nassau Street
Abstract: Lord Leinster, personified as a rough Irish farmer, leads Queen Caroline by a rope around her neck. Leinster expounds: 'Dam me! no one but the D... shall stop her.' Another figure in the background, probably Bartolomeo Pergami, replies: 'Stop Nosey, let me feel that Heifer.'
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from dealer's description.
Text below title: Dedicated to the Farming Society of Ireland.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Purchased from Pickering & Chatto; November 2016.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.3 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) Ireland 1820
Etchings Ireland Dublin 1820
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Leinster, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of, 1791-1874
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Subject (Topic): Adultery
Farmers
Nobility
Rulers
Subjects: Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 > Caricatures and cartoons
Leinster, Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of, 1791-1874 > Caricatures and cartoons
Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron > Caricatures and cartoons
Adultery
Farmers
Nobility
Rulers
Ireland > 1820
Ireland > Dublin > 1820

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