File:Sr Robert Fagg & the Gipsy (BM 1923,0514.89).jpg
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Sr Robert Fagg & the Gipsy
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Sr Robert Fagg & the Gipsy |
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| Description |
English: Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket.
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| Depicted people | Representation of: Sir Robert Fagge | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1734 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1923,0514.89 |
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| Notes |
Entry from F. G. Stephens, Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Division I. Political and Personal Satires, Vol. III: 1: This etching shows an old man sitting on horseback, looking to our left, holding a purse in one hand, and offering a piece of money to a young woman, who stands by his horse's head, and carries a basket of eggs on her arm. She laughs at him. There is a copy of this print, the execution of which is inferior to that of the above; see (No. 2.), with the same title and date, No. 2024. Sir Robert Fagg, who was M.P. for Steyning, Sussex, and a Baronet, died Sept. 14, 1740, is stated to be among the audience in Hogarth's picture " A Scene in the ' Beggars' Opera.' " There is a reference to this person in "Applebee's Original Weekly Journal," &c. May 27, 1721. "Last Week Sir Robert Fagg's little black Galloway beat all the siz'd Horses that ran at Lewis in Sussex for the King's 100£ Plate." " The Art of Politicks," see " Risum teneatis amici?", No. 1833, says:— " Leave you of mighty Interest to brag, And poll two Voices like Sir Robert Fagg." The original copper-plate of this work was (18 17) in the possession of Mr. Wilkinson, of Fenchurch Street. 6 6/8 X 4 5/8 in. .......................... For another impression and comment, see S,1.71 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1923-0514-89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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