"The Cotswold Games, with Robert Dover on horseback at lower centre, riding to left; illustration to James Caulfield's 'Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of remarkable Persons, from the Reign of Edward III to the Revolution' (London: 1794); copy from woodcut prefixed to 'Annalia Dubrensia'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., A copy of a print published in Annalia Dubrensia in 1636., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Robert Dover, 1575-1641 -- Cotswold -- Gloucestershire: Dover's Hill -- Games: Olympics, Cotswold -- 17th-century games: cudget playing, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, throwing the sledge, topping the pike, guns discharged from the castle of boards -- 17th-century dances -- Bagpipes -- Hunting -- Coursing., and Robert Dover's name added below image in a later hand.
