Return to Town
All Resolutions
So Carey took him up to ride
Upon his back, that he might guide
Their hobby, and return to town,
Intending there to set him down.
Description:
A man rides a dandy horse on a country road, carrying a friend on his back.
The catalog record for this book attributes this series of illustrations to Isaac Robert Cruikshank, citing Gumuchian (the Parisian publisher?) as the only reference. Given that the same Gumuchian also mentions 1821 as the date of the first edition, whereas the book presented here bears 1819 as its publication date; considering that the record describes these illustrations as wood engravings while we incline to believe they might well be etchings, we won’t be endorsing the Cruikshank attribution for the time being.
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