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| Keywords: How to avoid the horse duty.jpg and comment from M Dorothy George 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum' VI 1938 Pitt's budget of 1784 imposed an annual tax of 10s on saddle- and carriage-horses exempting those used for trade and agriculture; see BMSats 6630 6914 On 27 Nov 1784 one Jonathan Thatcher rode his cow to and from the market of Stockport in protest against the horse-tax Chambers 'Book of Days' ii 627 where there is a copy of a similar print See also http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details aspx objectId 1536786 partId 1 searchText stockport images true page 1 this similar print with curator comment For earlier states see 1988 0514 25 and 1988 0514 22 Satire on a recently introduced tax on horse-ownership A separate strip of paper pasted below the print records A farmer in Cheshire who kept a good team of horses but had not entered one as a hackney or saddle horse having occasion to go to Stockport market on Friday actually saddled a cow and rode her in triumph to and from the market attended by a numerous concourse of spectators who heartily enjoyed the joke - See Morning Herald of Friday Dec 3 1784 1784 http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery aspx assetId 82859001 objectId 1458941 partId 1 John Nixon other versions 'How to avoid the horse duty' - satirical print by John Nixon A stout farmer rides left to right past an inn on a cow The cow befouls and tramples on a paper inscribed 'Tax on Horses' The farmer looks triumphantly over his right shoulder at a group of spectators standing at the door of the inn and snaps his fingers saying Pitt be D------d A basket containing poultry hangs from the saddle Part of the inn is on the left of the design its sign is a stout man holding a foaming tankard gazing at three sacks inscribed 'Joe Jolly 1784' a '7' appears to have been etched over the '4' Five amused spectators stand by the door; from a window above two men applaud the farmer 1784 Etching Height 180 millimetres Width 235 millimetres Satires British 1784 Unmounted Roy PD-old-100-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Satirical art works 1784 works Cows in art Farmers in art | ||||
