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The city hunt
Title
The city hunt [graphic] / H. Bunbury del. ; Rowlandson scul.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1810?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 24.3 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
Plate also published in: Caricatures. [London?], [1836?], page 48.
Provenance
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
"'Cits' gallop (right to left) across a rough field near London, with one or two mongrel dogs under the horses' hooves. One leaps a small piece of water over the head of a man who has fallen in. A fat man is flung upwards from his prostrate horse. In the background is a 'cit's country box' surrounded by a wall, above which projects a gazebo, in the Chinese taste (cf. No. 8208 by Bunbury). Tiny figures watch from a window and from the wall. Near the wall ride two little chimney-sweeps on an ass, and a woman on a broken-kneed horse."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2012
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 11646
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 371
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1810.
Etchings - England - London - 1810.
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