Accession number
PML 145850.146
Published
[London : Henry Fielding, 1747 or 8?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Woodcutter unknown, design attributed to William Hogarth.
Woodcut originally published as a headpiece illustration for Henry Fielding's The Jacobite's journal, published in London from Dec. 5, 1747 to Nov. 5, 1748.
Mounted as item 146 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Woodcutter unknown, design attributed to William Hogarth.
Woodcut originally published as a headpiece illustration for Henry Fielding's The Jacobite's journal, published in London from Dec. 5, 1747 to Nov. 5, 1748.
Mounted as item 146 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : woodcut ; image: 115 x 184 mm; sheet: 157 x 197 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a Scotsman and woman on an ass led by a monk with, in the background, a view of London from the north; the Scotsman waves his hat and shouts "Huzza!", while the woman brandishes a sword and grips the donkey's tail, to which a volume labeled "Harrington" is attached; hanging from the donkey's reins is a copy of the London evening post.
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