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A Lesson Westward - or a Morning Visit to Betsy Cole   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
A Lesson Westward - or a Morning Visit to Betsy Cole
Description
English: A girl, in profile to the left, seated on the box-seat of a four-wheeled cart drawn by a pair of horses. She is receiving a driving-lesson from a man who sits behind her on the edge of the cart in which is a sheaf of straw. On the side of the cart is a board inscribed "Tom Longtrot's Academy for Young Ladies. Driving taught to an Inch, Ladies compleatly finish'd in a fortnight, for Gig, Whiskey, or Phaeton: Single Lesson half a Crown, Five for half a Guinea".


The girl holds whip and reins very awkwardly, the hind wheel passes over one of a litter of small pigs which is with a sow in the foreground. A short stout citizen (left) clutches a post or mile-stone in alarm at the prospect of being run over. The driver wears an elaborate hat with feathers and a muslin dress, very unlike the dress of the fashionable women-whips of the day, cf. BMSat 6114.
Beneath the title is engraved, "Hammersmith Turnpike", and,

"When once the Women taken the Reins in hand,
' Tis then too true, that Men have no command."

Behind the cart the upper part of the toll-house appears, with the head of a grinning spectator, probably the toll-keeper. By the toll is a large rectangular Georgian house with a square pillared porch inscribed "WILL-SON". This is the inn, The Bell and Anchor, which still exists (1932), altered, at the corner of Blyth Road close to Olympia. 2 January 1782


Mezzotint
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 352 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.82
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A coloured impression is in 'Caricatures', i, p. 202 [1935,0522.1]. B.M.L. Tab. 524.

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There is also a proof before letters (2010,7081.1239).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-82
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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