A Cockney & his Wife going to Wycombe

James Gillray|John Miller|William Blackwood

1805–40 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

This print reproduces a Gillrary etching of 1805 at a smaller scale and shows a man in a top hat driving his plump wife in a two-seat open carriage pulled by an emaciated horse. A mongrel dog with a bone in its mouth walks ahead of them. A stone mile marker behind is lettered: "Miles from London" (the place where the number should appear broken off), and a mortar and pestle decorates the side of the carriage, identifying the man as a druggist or apothecary.

Artist

James Gillray|John Miller|William Blackwood

Date

1805–40

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014