Irish peg in a rage. Make good the damage you dog, or I'll cut away your parsnip – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Irish peg in a rage. Make good the damage you dog, or I'll cut away your parsnip
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Its caption is what sets this print apart: a furious "Irish peg" demands that a dog make good some damage, or else she will "cut away your parsnip." The threat is crude and comic, and the wording alone suggests a quarrel between a street seller and a fashionable man. Carington Bowles, a leading London publisher of satirical prints, issued it in 1773, when the British press was filled with caricatures of the dandies known as macaronis. The record also lists peddlers as a subject, so the print likely mocks the clash between fine clothes and working street life in the city.
| Created / published | London : Printed for Carington Bowles ... Publish'd as the act directs, 1773 May 29. |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving and mezzotint. |
| Genre | Satires (Visual works) British 1770-1780.Mezzotints 1770-1780. |
| Notes | Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 4531. Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Dandies--Great Britain--1770-1780. Peddlers--Great Britain--1770-1780. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,259 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179229 |
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