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- Creator:
- Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- publish'd 1st March 1777.
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 777.03.01.02.2+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to British Museum Satires No. 4719."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Publication statement is lightly etched and barely visible., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Campanion print to: Newmarket : a shot at a pigeon., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Newmarket (Suffolk, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Gambling, Alleys, Dogs, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Newmarket a shot at a hawk / [graphic]