print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0612.1253
- Title
- Object: A poney race.
- Description
-
Two sailors ride (l. to r.) bare-back on two galloping horses, one half a length behind. The horses are rough and clumsy, with blinkers and horse-collars. One sailor (l.), whose hat flies off, shouts to the other: "Hollo' you Swab, lay too a bit, can't you: I've lost part of my upper rightigging, - and the Vessel's firing signal guns of distress. - have you lost your hearing." The other says: "If the lubber had not stood to it: they were both Ponies, I should have taken mine for a Cart Horse, - by the bumping in the Stern." c.1803 as re-issued by Tegg in 1807
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
-
Height: 273 millimetres
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Width: 346 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)
Also an impression, the pl. much worn, with Tegg's serial number, Tegg's imprint removed.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0612.1253
