Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]

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Title: Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Flying buck
Contributor: Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, artist.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [6 July 1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, July 6, 1776, 39 Strand
Abstract: An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip, as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker to the right of the print XIX miles. A crest of a deer or donkey head adorns the side of the carriage
Description: [State with plate number].
Title from item.
Reissue, with added plate number.
Initial letters "MD" of publisher's name form a monogram.
Numbered '12' in upper left of plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss., vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 41 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Etchings England London 1776
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Material: etching with engraving and drypoint ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Carriages and carts
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Horses
Clothing & dress
Obesity
Coats of arms
Subjects: Carriages and carts > England > Early works to 1800
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Horses
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Obesity
Coats of arms
England > London > 1776
England > 1776

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