print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.10102
- Title
- Object: City Foulers - Mark!
- Description
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A wooded scene in the immediate suburbs of London, with St. Paul's in the background. Two 'cits' with guns prepare to fire, since their dog points at a bush, behind which, concealed from the sportsmen, squats a man excreting (left). A man holding a powder-flask watches with amusement from the top of a gate (right). Another dog sits in the foreground (right). Beneath the title is engraved :
'Against the Wind he takes his prudent way,
While the strong Gale directs him to the prey;
Now the warm scent assures the covey near,
He treads with caution & he points with fear.
Gay.
-------------------------clausisque expectat ocellis
θυμπον---------------------------------------------' 1 September 1785
Stipple
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
-
Height: 293 millimetres
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Width: 364 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', VI, 1938)
For the favourite theme of the Cockney sportsman cf. BMSat 7756, 8208.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.10102
