They Got upon the Top
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... Where a coach had made a stop;
So they both got upon the top,
And after their disastrous falls,
At length in safety reach'd St. Paul's.
Description:
A full-up coach with passengers sitting on the roof moves away from the viewer as the coachman whips the horses.
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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