Taking a fly [graphic].

Description

Title: Taking a fly [graphic].
Contributor: Field & Tuer, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1868?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket [i.e Field & Tuer]
Abstract: A scene beside a river: In the foreground two men who had been fishing have been pulled into the river by the rope attached to a ferry that is crossing to the other side when the horse that is pulling it bolts down stream. A third man is about to fall into the water as well as a fourth companion chases the runaway horse and his owner
Description: Title etched below image.
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1824, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 824.00.00.11.
Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]
Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 1.
On leaf 36 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Provenance: Gift of Addison Van Name to Yale University Library, 1919. Transferred from Yale University Library; November 1967.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.0 x 26 cm, on sheet 59 x 43 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title: Leaf 36. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Collection / Other Creator: Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900, collector.
Collection Date: [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1824
Aquatints England London 1868
Etchings England London 1868
Restrikes
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fishing
Fishing & hunting gear
Barges
Horses
Ropes
Accidents
Dogs
Subjects: Fishing
Fishing & hunting gear
Barges
Horses
Ropes
Accidents
Dogs
England > 1824
England > London > 1868

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