Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

A hint for an escape at the next spring meeting / IC.

Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?

A hint for an escape at the next spring meeting / IC.

Published

London : Pubd. Mrch [sic] 16, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [1792]

etching, hand colored
sheet: 215 x 381 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1723
Notes
Publisher's announcement following the imprint: where may be seen the largest collection of caracatures [sic] in Europe, admittance 1 shilling.
Library's copy has been cropped with loss of imprint and artist monogram. Caption has been excited and pasted at the foot of the cropped image.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Print shows the Prince of Wales, with arms outstretched, and taking an enormous stride stretching almost across the design; he is ridden by a little jockey (Chifney) who kneels on his shoulders, his whip between his teeth, holding the Prince's queue. They are reaching the winning-post, behind which stands the judge, on a block, looking through an oval aperture fixed to the post, his right hand raised. Behind (left) stand three leading members of the Jockey Club, two of them threaten the jockey with raised whips, saying, "off, off, no Second Performanc of this Harlequin Chiff - Duck him Duck him in the Lake" and "D------ him I'll Hunt him like a mad Bullock, if he Escapes me again may I be bung'd in a Beer Butt." The former is probably Sir Charles Bunbury, the latter, who is very stout, is identified as T. Bullock. The Duke of Bedford on the extreme right, wearing a star, says, "Gentlemen dont Trouble yourselves with him, we'll send him from Bedford to Coventry." In the distance are men riding, and a high phaeton. Cf. BM Satires.

Associated names
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department