A man attempting to alert a deaf farmer using an ear trumpet as to the plight of his horses and cart. Coloured etching.

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10959i
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1 print : etching, with watercolour

Lettering

"Oh aye! my horses! efs zur as you say, they want naw looking arter, they bees main quiet, and knows their way loike cristuns."

Creator/production credits

Similar to works by Robert Seymour both in the figures and in the phonetic dialect of the lettering

References note

Not found in: British Museum Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1870-1954

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Wellcome Collection 10959i

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