A mad dog on the run in a London street: citizens attack it as it approaches a woman who has fallen over. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.

  • Busby, Thomas Lord.
Date:
1826
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663745i
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Busby's humorous etchings
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A mad dog on the run in a London street: citizens attack it as it approaches a woman who has fallen over. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A broadside headed "Caution ... Hydrophobia" is posted up on a wall to left. On the right is a house with a fanlight over the door and sash-windows. One man shoots at the dog, others approach it with staves and pitchforks, while an elderly man in a wig decoys it with a hat on the end of an umbrella. The woman who has fallen over is an apple-seller; her basketful of apples is spread over the street

Publication/Creation

[London] (the Artist Dep[ositor]y 21 Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq.) : [T.L. Busby], 1826.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; sheet 24 x 15.8 cm.

Lettering

Mad dog. Busby

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. 8, London 1947, no. 15360

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663745i

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