A Yorkshire methode of finding a horse [graphic].

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Title: A Yorkshire methode of finding a horse [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. July 1, 1801 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Abstract: "A Welshman and a Yorkshireman drink together at a table outside a rustic building; one holds a halter, waiting for a horse which a boy in the background is catching. The former says: '"Gots splutter I tell the County where I came from is so fertile that if you were to put in a seive over Night in a Close w [cropped] Hur Knows you would have hard matter to find it in the morning it would be so covered with grass.'' - Yn - "Phoo - thats nothing when compared to a Clos [cropped] is in Yorkshire where you may put in a Horse at Night and not be able to find him next morning.'"--British Museum online catalogue
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Three lines of text below ttitle: Gots splutter I tell the Country where I came from is so fertile that if you were to put a seive over Night in a close which hur knows you would have hard matter to find...
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, Vol. X.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 21 x 27 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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