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A smock race at Tottenham-Court fair.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A smock race at Tottenham-Court fair.
Description
English: A crude print on coarse paper with many figures. On the right is the corner of a house in the 'City Road', the sign of the 'Kings Head'; a pole from which the smock is suspended projects from a first-floor window. Beneath it stands a man holding up a pot of beer, and other spectators cheering on the women who run from the left. One (left) falls over a sow and her litter. A dog with a saucepan tied to its tail increases the confusion; an old apple-woman has fallen. A chimney-sweep and a small boy bestride an ass; another ass kicks violently and throws its rider, a ragged boy. In the background a woman is being tossed by a bull. There are other incidents. On the left is a corner house in 'Tottenham Court Road', with spectators looking from the windows. Opposite is the Adam and Eve tea-garden, with its sign over the gateway. c.1784 [So dated in Crace Collection Catalogue.]
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Date 1780-1810 (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 387 millimetres (cropped)
Width: 504 millimetres (cropped)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,1113.4729
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) Crace Coll. xxxi, No. 10.

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A letterpess clipping dated Friday 11th August 1738 is attached to the mount of this print, advertising an entertainment at Tottenham-Court.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-4729
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