painting/watercolour
Details
Description
Cartoon by J.H.Buckingham, 306 x 248 mm.
"A Cockney Sportsman" with rifle accidentally shooting a couple who are "carried off by an Old Sow through a Horse Pond". A steam train is visible on the horizon, with St Albans Abbey to the left.
Captions read:
(top): "Notice only for Christmas day - Persons not wishing to be shot, had better stay at Home. Cockney Sportsman will be as numerous in the Lanes &c. as Fishermen by the streams in the environs of LONDON any one having a quantity of sparrows or any other BIrds may meet with a ready sale as they must take Home a proof of their extraordinary Skill to talk off [sic.] till the next Christmas Day."
(centre right):"A Flight of Cupids let loose from the Counters &c. to encounter Roast Beef & Plum Pudding at their Papas & Mamas & other kind Relations also to astonish with their fine clothes & fine talk a la Feminine".
(bottom left):"Cupid from the Counter on Christmas Day. a Cockney Sportsman by accident shoots a pair of Fine Turtle Doves. They are carried off by an Old Sow through a Horse Pond making them pretty Ducks - cooling their cooing - spoiling Their Clothes and their Holiday".
"A Cockney Sportsman" with rifle accidentally shooting a couple who are "carried off by an Old Sow through a Horse Pond". A steam train is visible on the horizon, with St Albans Abbey to the left.
Captions read:
(top): "Notice only for Christmas day - Persons not wishing to be shot, had better stay at Home. Cockney Sportsman will be as numerous in the Lanes &c. as Fishermen by the streams in the environs of LONDON any one having a quantity of sparrows or any other BIrds may meet with a ready sale as they must take Home a proof of their extraordinary Skill to talk off [sic.] till the next Christmas Day."
(centre right):"A Flight of Cupids let loose from the Counters &c. to encounter Roast Beef & Plum Pudding at their Papas & Mamas & other kind Relations also to astonish with their fine clothes & fine talk a la Feminine".
(bottom left):"Cupid from the Counter on Christmas Day. a Cockney Sportsman by accident shoots a pair of Fine Turtle Doves. They are carried off by an Old Sow through a Horse Pond making them pretty Ducks - cooling their cooing - spoiling Their Clothes and their Holiday".
Name/Title
J H Buckingham - "Christmas Day"
Media/Materials
Accession No
2008.5514
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