Taking a fly [graphic].

Description

Title: Taking a fly [graphic].
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: [1824?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: A scene beside a river: In the foreground two men who had been fishing have been pulled into the river by the rope attached to a ferry that is crossing to the other side when the horse that is pulling it bolts down stream. A third man is about to fall into the water as well as a fourth companion chases the runaway horse and his owner
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 1.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.4 x 25 cm, on sheet 24 x 31 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1824
Aquatints England London 1824
Etchings England London 1824
Watermarks (Paper) Abbey Mills
Material: aquatint and etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Fishing
Fishing & hunting gear
Barges
Horses
Ropes
Accidents
Dogs
Subjects: Fishing
Fishing & hunting gear
Barges
Horses
Ropes
Accidents
Dogs
England > 1824
England > London > 1824
Abbey Mills

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