Design consists of male figures from various social classes, professions, ethnic groups, all caricatured, arranged in four horizontal rows all riding two-wheeled bicycles. Below four columns of verse commenting on the various types depicted: parson, lawyer, 'Cit', miser (a caricature of a Jewish man), dandy, tailor, balck man, Quaker, clowns, hunter, etc
Alternative Title:
Four and twenty hobby-horses all of a row
Description:
Title from caption below image., Four columns of verse in letterpress below title: Hobby's the word, and, onward sliding, all London Town is set a-riding ..., Publisher statement in etched below image., Printer statement in letterpress below verses., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mills.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1819, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand and Printed by L. Harrison, 373, Strand
Subject (Topic):
Bicycles & tricycles, Clowns, Ethnic stereotypes, and Occupations
