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Published / Created:: [ca. 1759]
Call Number:: 756.00.00.74
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A gentleman who wears fool's cap, carries a bauble in one hand and a bell (which he rings) in the other. He is accompanied by another gentleman who carries a halbred as they driving four geese and four turkeys before them on the road "To London" as the sign-post states. The former gentleman says, "This vastly pretty." His companion responds, " This is fine sport, only I am very cold."
Description:: Title engraved above image., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Copy in reverse of a print of the same title published by Edwards & Darly 27 October 1756. See British Museum catalogue no. 3407., Two lines of text below image: Birds of a feather flock together, Like to Like, as the Devil said to the Collier., Related print identifies the two gentlemen as the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Rockingham: Now goose, now turkey, or, The present state of England. See British Museum catalogue no. 3409., and Plate from: England's remembrancer. London, 1759.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782 and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):: Geese, Traffic signs & signals, and Turkeys
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The pleasures of the turf [graphic].