[Illustrated humorous poem about the importance of fox hunting in British social life: doctor making house calls before hunting] – Antique Wall Art
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A doctor on his rounds, sandwiched between patients and the hunting field, is the comic core of this color woodcut, which pairs its verse with the picture. Fox hunting was a central pastime of the English country gentry in the 1880s, when the decade's humorous verse and cartoons often poked fun at its rituals and at the professional men who juggled them with ordinary duties. The record's catalog tags point to themes of manners, marriage, and the law, suggesting the poem satirizes the social obligations that bound the rural upper and middling classes. The date is only approximate, so the piece is best read as a snapshot of that period's humor about class and leisure.
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, col. |
|---|---|
| Notes | ca. 188-. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Manners...; Marriage; Law...; Occupations--Doctors; Cartoons, Brit.--ca. 188-; Hunting; Gt. Brit.--Eng.--Misc.--ca. 188-; RBD; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121360 |
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