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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [13 February 1773]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 773.02.13.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on an English post courier (as opposed to a French courier, see British Museum Satires No. 4737): a man on horseback, blowing a horn, with an enormous sack at his back; he rides along a country road towards the right where a gibbet stands with two hanging bodies."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Early state. For later states with altered imprint statements, see Lewis Walpole Library call no. Bunbury 774.05.03.01+ and no. 4736 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Likely companion print to: Courier francois., and Temporary local subject terms: Couriers -- Post-horns.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd as the act directs, 13th Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Horseback riding, Bags, Delivering, Horns (Communication devices), Hangings (Executions), and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Courier anglois [graphic]
