A poney race [graphic]Roberts, Piercy, active 1791-1805, printmaker[not before 1 January 1807]eng"Two sailors ride (left to right) bare-back on two galloping horses, one half a length behind. The horses are rough and clumsy, with blinkers and horse-collars. One sailor (left), whose hat flies off, shouts to the other: "Hollo' you Swab, lay too a bit, can't you: I've lost part of my upper rightigging, - and the Vessel's firing signal guns of distress. - have you lost your hearing." The other says: "If the lubber had not stood to it: they were both Ponies, I should have taken mine for a Cart Horse, - by the bumping in the Stern"."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Later reissue by Tegg of a plate originally published ca. 1803 by Piercy Roberts. Roberts's imprint in lower right corner of design is totally obscured by etched lines; Tegg's imprint was added above title for the initial reissue but was burnished from the plate for this later reissue. See British Museum online catalogue.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: London, Pubd. Janry. 1, 1807, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. See British Museum catalogue.Plate numbered "249" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom edges.Leaf 29 in volume 4.