A hunt over a bottle, or, The cork screw chace [graphic] / G.T. invt.

Copyright Date:

[19 May 1772]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 19 x 26 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Hunting -- Hounds -- Fences.

Abstract:

A hunting scene in which the obese huntsman, riding a horse that is shaped like a bottle, follows in full gallop a pack of hounds shaped like wine glasses as they race over the fence. The party pursues their quarry, a fox with a body shaped like a corkscrew, through a rolling landscape, over a stile and up a hill.

Variant Titles:

Cork screw chace
Corkscrew chase

Topics:

Dogs.
Fox hunting.
Horseback riding.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 37 bottom

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1772.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1772.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

8335519

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library
LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37102b

OID:

16737565

PID:

digcoll:4711135