File:Newmarket. A Shot at a Hawk (BM J,6.89).jpg
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[edit]Newmarket. A Shot at a Hawk
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Print made by: James Bretherton
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| Title |
Newmarket. A Shot at a Hawk |
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| Description |
English: Satire on bookmaking: a portly man grins as he makes a note in a small book as another scowls miserably, hands in pockets; on the left, three dogs bark at the pair, above them the wall has been chalked "45" and "[Wil]kes" (alluding to John Wilkes, see 1868,0808.4315) and a sign reads, "No Thouroughfare Here"; behind the men is the wall of a house, from an upper window of which appears a man's leg clad in a dark stocking (a "blackleg" or swindling bookmaker (OED)), below the window a gallows with a hanged man has been crudely drawn on the wall, a notice reads "Whoso Lays ... will be prose[cuted]" (presumably alluding to infringement of gambling regulations); from another window, above which is the sign "Catchpenny Alley", hangs the head of a goose, a small dog jumps up trying to reach it; another dog is seated at right; a pair to BM Satires 4719. 1 March 1777
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| Depicted people | Associated with: John Wilkes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1777 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
J,6.89 |
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| Notes |
An impression in the Library of Congress is lettered, "Pubd. August 1st 1801 by S. W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly". Stephens did not read the date, and so placed the print c.1770. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-6-89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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