A hunt over a bottle, or, The cork screw chace [graphic]

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Title: A hunt over a bottle, or, The cork screw chace [graphic]
Alternative Title: Cork screw chace
Corkscrew chase
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [19 May 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. accorg. to act May 19th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A hunting scene in which the obese huntsman, riding a horse that is shaped like a bottle, follows in full gallop a pack of hounds shaped like wine glasses as they race over the fence. The party pursues their quarry, a fox with a body shaped like a corkscrew, through a rolling landscape, over a stile and up a hill
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Hunting -- Hounds -- Fences.
Second of two plates on leaf 37.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 19 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 37. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Fox hunting
Dogs
Subjects: Horseback riding
Fox hunting
Dogs
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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