[The gig] [graphic].

Description

Title: [The gig] [graphic].
Alternative Title: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 October 1815]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Abstract: "A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death.
Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Extent: 1 print : design 120 x 201 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Etchings England London 1815
Aquatints England London 1815
Material: etching and aquatint ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic): Dance of death
Death (Personification)
Accidents
Skeletons
Carriages & coaches
Horses
Dogs
Traffic signs & signals
Hourglasses
Subjects: Combe, William, 1742-1823 > Illustrations
Dance of death
Death (Personification)
Accidents
Skeletons
Carriages & coaches
Horses
Dogs
Traffic signs & signals
Hourglasses
England > 1815
England > London > 1815

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