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A calf's pluck
Title
A calf's pluck [graphic] / H. Bunbury del. A pull'd turkey / H. Bunbury del. Collard pig / H. Bunbury del. Rusty bacon / H. Bunbury del.
Publication
[London] : [Thomas Tegg], [1807?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 25.6 x 42 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Titles etched below images.
Printmaker, publisher, and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "30" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.
Provenance
Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"Four designs on one plate. All have punning titles. [1] A young calf, led by a butcher, runs off, throwing the man to the ground. A dog barks, an amused woman watches from a casement window. Scrawled on the cottage wall is 'H Soak for ever.' 'Pluck', a butcher's term for edible offal, was then pugilistic slang (from c. 1785). [2] A fat market woman on a shaggy pony has a turkey tied by the legs to the back of her saddle. Unknown to her a dog drags at its neck. An amused man watches from behind a tree. [3] A pig is being driven with a three-cornered yoke over its head. A man rides beside it; the horse puts a hind-leg over the animal's back so that the pastern is caught under the yoke. [4] A boy drags forward a bad-tempered pig by a cord tied to its hind-leg. A youth plies a whip, a dog barks. Beside them is a signpost: 'To Rumford'. 'Rusty', a slang term for ill-tempered."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
A pull'd turkey.
Collard pig.
Rusty bacon.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 13, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 10922
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 80
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1807.
Etchings - England - London - 1807.
Watermarks (Paper) - 1817.
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