Taking a fly [graphic].

Description

Title: Taking a fly [graphic].
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [1824?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
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 from caption below image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
1 print : aquatint and etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 20.1 x 25.4 cm, on sheet 25.8 x 31.2 cm.
Watermark: Abbey Mills.
With border lines added in pen and ink. Stamped on verso in blue ink: PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. With remains of former backing.
Provenance: Gift of Susan Walker; July 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 31 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English