Rural sports. Smock racing [graphic] / Rowlandson del.

Published/Created:

[London]
[Thomas Tegg]
[1 October 1811]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 36 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11787
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 212

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Plate numbered "101" in upper left corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xiii, p. 165.
Watermark: 1819.

Abstract:

"A crowd watches three country girls who race (left to right) barefoot and lightly clad; a dog has tripped up a fourth. A dog runs too, with some object tied to its tail. Many of the crowd are in violent action, fighting or falling. Spectators watch from a wagon into which a very fat woman is being hoisted. Others fall from a bench (right), near which are a man on stilts with a fiddle on his back, and another blowing a coach-horn. A horse driven by a would-be fashionable in a gig plunges into the crowd, and the driver is fiercely assailed by two mounted men. In the background, on a ridge, are a few small tents with banners and spectators, indicating a village fair. Farther off (right) is a church with a double spire."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Smock racing

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 [Publisher]

Topics:

Carts & wagons
Crowds
Fairs
Johnstone, Henry Arthur

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1811
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1811
Watermarks (Paper) -- 1817
Watermarks (Paper) -- 1819

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror

Call Number:

811.10.01.01+

Orbis Record:

9168046

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11498

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10964837

PID:

digcoll:974244