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- Creator:
- Nixon, John, -1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1794]
- Call Number:
- 794.02.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "'Cits' (i.e. citizens) ride (left to right) (types of vulgar horsemanship, cf. BMSats 7233, 7242) in a cloud of dust, following a crowded stage-coach inscribed 'To the Races'. A rough two-wheeled cart, crammed with a family party, is drawn by a cantering pony. A signpost points 'To the Race Ground'. A suburban setting is given by the country box and 'grounds' of a 'cit', with a notice-board: 'Spring Blunderbusss on a new Construction - Planted in Various Paths of my Domain & whosown Trample Down or pull up the Shrubs in this Garden shall be Prosecuted - Deputy Dump'. In front of the house the owner (?) and his wife look over the paling at the race-goers. The house is a square box, whose small scale is indicated by the size of a pot-plant on the flat roof; on this are also figures of Neptune, Harlequin, and Mercury. Adjacent (left) is a shed inscribed 'Mr Dumps Stables', with a pretentious cupola."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Pub. Feby. 1, 1794, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England),
- Subject (Topic):
- City council members, Dogs, Ducks, Stagecoaches, Signs (Notices), and Spouses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A trip to the races [graphic]
