print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1948,0214.883
- Title
- Object: Ease comfort & recreation or a sixpenny trip to the rock.
- Description
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A primitive, ramshackle, and broken chaise, with two seats facing each other, is crammed with six persons, while an Irish jarvey sits on a projecting ledge, whipping a moribund horse, which plods slowly; two boys cling behind. One of the passengers wears military uniform, one is a lady with an open parasol, one is an Irishman who stands up at right angles to the other passengers, waving his hat and a shillelagh. In the background are hills and in the middle distance a park wall and gates.
c.1820
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1820
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 326 millimetres (cropped)
- $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', X, 1952)
'The Rock' is Blackrock, formerly a bathing resort close to Dublin. The park is probably Frescati, a seat of the Leinster family. W. S. Joyce, 'The Neighbourhood of Dublin', 1913, pp. 32 ff.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0214.883