Two 'cits' are shown out for a day's sport in the countryside. One is rather thin and fashionably dressed, while the other is an older, fat John Bull type. The younger man leaps a low fence, firing his rifle at a flight of birds, his clipped poodle leaping beside him. His fat companion stands on the far side of a ow stile, gun in hand, an eager bulldog at his side; he tries to catch his hat which his friend has knocked off
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Title etched below image., Date based on range of years in which Davison produced caricatures. See: Isaac, Peter. Some Alnwick caricatures. Wylam : Allenholme Press, 1965., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., A copy in reverse of Gillray's print "Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying", published 12 November 1800. Cf. No. 9597 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.