A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe

After James Gillray British
 Publisher John Miller British
 Publisher William Blackwood British, Scottish

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This print reproduces a Gillrary etching of 1805 at a smaller scale and shows a man in a top hat driving his plump wife in a two-seat open carriage pulled by an emaciated horse. A mongrel dog with a bone in its mouth walks ahead of them. A stone mile marker behind is lettered: "Miles from London" (the place where the number should appear broken off), and a mortar and pestle decorates the side of the carriage, identifying the man as a druggist or apothecary.

A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe, After James Gillray (British, London 1756–1815 London), Etching

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