The Cheshire farmers policy, or, Pitt outwitted [graphic] / JN fe[ci]t sculp. 1784.

Published/Created:

[London]
Publish'd as the act directs, Decr. 11th, 1784, for M. Smith, No. 46 Fleet Street
[11 December 1784]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching & drypoint on laid paper ; plate mark 18.5 x 23.8 cm, on sheet 21 x 25 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Below plate line, letter press explanatory text: A farmer in Cheshire, who kept a good team of horses, but had not entered one as a hackney or saddle horse, having occasion to go to Stockport market on Friday, actually saddled a cow, and rode her in triumph to and from the market, attended by a numerous concourse of spectators, who heartily enjoyed the joke - See Morning Herald of Friday Dec. 3, 1784.
For a later impression by a different publisher see: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 6672
Three lines of text below the image.
Suckling; May 1956.
Watermark in center of sheet: Taylor.

Abstract:

"Political satire; a farmer rides to market on a cow from an inn named 'Joe Jolly', with a goose and a cockerel in a basket attached to his saddle, and a notice reading 'Tax on Horses' under the cow's hoof; a small group cheer him from the lintel and window of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Pitt outwitted

Associated Names:

Nixon, John, -1818 [Printmaker]
Smith, M., active 1783-1784 [Publisher]

Topics:

Cows
Defecation
Farmers
Geese
Horses -- Taxation -- Great Britain
Newspapers
Spectators
Taverns (Inns)
Taxation -- Great Britain

Language:

English

Genre:

Drypoints -- England -- London -- 1784
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1784
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1784

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

784.12.11.01

Orbis Record:

7671557

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05652

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10727914

PID:

digcoll:549958