[Scene of an accident with passengers spilling out of an overturned horse cart on their way to a county fair] [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
1810 October 5 - Copyright Date:
- [5 October 1810]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 22.8 x 33 cm
- Notes:
- "Price one shilling coloured."
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title devised by cataloger. - Abstract:
- "The booths are in the background (right) across a large field in which are the foreground figures. The horse has broken loose from a two-wheeled cart, heavily overladen with visitors to the fair, who have been thrown headlong to the ground, where eight men and women lie in a heap, flourishing arms and legs, either despairingly or pugnaciously; one man has remained in the front of the cart and laughs at their plight. Another man holds the broken rope harness of the kicking horse. Two couples (left) run joyfully towards the disaster, an unrehearsed sport of the fair: two country people in front, an over-dressed and elderly couple behind. In front (right) are the bones of a horse. In the background is a line of tents and booths before which stand spectators. On the stages of adjacent booths persons are posturing, and an acrobat swings on a slack-rope. The names over the booths are 'Polito', 'Sanders', 'Guny', 'Ast . . [? Astley]'. Farther off (left) a horse- or ass-race is in progress, indicated by tiny figures."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Sports of a country fair ; part the first
Sports of a country fair. Part the first. - Topics:
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1810.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1810. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 11
- Orbis Record:
- 12948928
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- General Collection, BRBL, Yale University
- oid pointer:
- 11793204
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 11629
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 191 - Extent of digitization:
- Complete folder digitized.
- OID:
- 11793124
- PID:
- digcoll:3997167