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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D5459/3/5
TitleA Poney Race
Date[1 Jan 1807]
DescriptionTwo sailors on horseback. Both horses are blinkered, wearing cart-horses' collars, and are galloping, with the sailors clinging on. The sailor on the left has lost his hat, and calls out to his companion:
"Hello you Swab, lay too a bit can't you, I've lost part of my upper rigging - and the Vessel's firing signal guns of distress. Have you lost your hearing."
The sailor on the right replies:
"If the luber had not stood to it they were both Ponies, I should have taken mine for a Cart Horse by the bumping in the stern."
Extent3 items
LevelSubSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
ArtistWoodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive CreatorGeorge Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information249

Woodward Del : Etch'd by Roberts

Date based on BM Sat 10893.
Publication NoteBM Sat 10893
TermSailors
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