Designed, etched, and published by T. Rowlandson, 1 James Street,
Adelphi. Republished 1818.--One of the series published by the artist,
to the finish, execution, and colouring of which he devoted extra care.
The scene pictures a haymaking festivity. Paddy from Cork, hayfork in
hand, has literally turned his coat hind part before; he is dancing
in company with another swain, who is holding a whisky-jug, and a
fellow Patlander, fiddling and capering for very life, beside two buxom
lasses, who are flourishing hayrakes and throwing themselves into the
most attractive attitudes. Groups suggestive of both rural felicity and
a terrific combat in combination are figured in the distance, as the
true Patland ideal of finishing a day's pleasure.
1818(?). _Doncaster Fair, or the Industrious Yorkshire Bites._
Designed, etched, and published by T. Rowlandson, 1 James Street,
Adelphi.--The principal figure in the foreground group is a buxom but
hardly gentle keeperess of a _knock-'em-down_ stand. The lady, clad
in a soldier's old jacket, with ragged skirts and defective hose, is
holding in one arm an instalment of sticks--'three throws a penny'--and
is demanding her fee, a trifle boisterously, from a smock-clad yokel,
who is diving into his short-clothes pocket for the coppers which do
not appear to be forthcoming. Other rustics are taking their pastime
at the same amusement, and one, in perplexity, is scratching his head.
The bustle of a country fair is set forth in the distance; there is
the usual display of booths and mountebanks, countrymen on horseback,
love-making in carts, stalls, and struggling groups of sightseers.