The repository, or, Tatter'd-sale [graphic].

Description

Title: The repository, or, Tatter'd-sale [graphic].
Alternative Title: Tatter'd-sale
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: Jany. 1, 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Mary Darly
Abstract: A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of the stables
Description: Title etched below image.
For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
On leaf 8.
With remnant of red wax seal on bottom edge of sheet.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 8. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Etchings England London 1777
Material: etching with dry point and roulette ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
England
Subject (Name): Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic): Horse buyers
Horse trading
Clothing & dress
Auctioneers
Horses
Subjects: Tattersalls (Firm)
Horse buyers
Horse trading > Great Britain
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Auctioneers
Horses
England > 1777
England > London > 1777

Access: Public
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