The waggoner [graphic].

Description

Title: The waggoner [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 July 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 25th July 1792, by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street
Description: A satire with a waggoner drives past a dandy who stands at a doorway on the right. The waggoner's cart is enormous and laden with hay filling the street; he grins and points at the gentleman who is spattered with mud from the cart's wheels. The scene illustrates the song engraved below the image.
Also lettered below the image, a song of three verses in three columns: When I comes to town with a load of hay ... So to mind 'em I ne'er seem, &c.
Title engraved below image.
Imprint, plate number, and verses from impression in the British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark at the bottom with loss of imprint and verses below.
Plate numbered: 281.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Songs England 1792
Satires (Visual works) England 1792
Mezzotints England London 1792
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carts & wagons
Dandies
British
Farmers
Hay
Horses
Whips
Subjects: Carts & wagons
Dandies > British
Farmers
Hay
Horses
Whips
England > 1792
England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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