"Political satire; a farmer rides to market on a cow from an inn named 'Joe Jolly', with a goose and a cockerel in a basket attached to his saddle, and a notice reading 'Tax on Horses' under the cow's hoof; a small group cheer him from the lintel and window of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Pitt outwitted
Description:
Title etched below image., Below plate line, letter press explanatory text: A farmer in Cheshire, who kept a good team of horses, but had not entered one as a hackney or saddle horse, having occasion to go to Stockport market on Friday, actually saddled a cow, and rode her in triumph to and from the market, attended by a numerous concourse of spectators, who heartily enjoyed the joke - See Morning Herald of Friday Dec. 3, 1784., For a later state by a different publisher, see no. 6672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Three lines of text below the image., and Watermark in center of sheet: Taylor.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Decr. 11th, 1784, for M. Smith, No. 46 Fleet Street