Title

'The Cock-pit', 1759.Artist: William Hogarth

Caption

'The Cock-pit', 1759. Cockfighting enthusiasts from a cross-section of society gamble and squabble. The blind Lord Albemarle Bertie (centre) is being robbed by a figure taking a note out of his upturned hat. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection

Date

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C25_029

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (10,2Mb) / 15,9in x 12,2in / 4778 x 3661 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male sport crowd man men hat bird birds gambling money finance guy crime spectator clothes British chicken fighting cockerel rooster cock crowded robbery dress betting cruelty blood sports century Britain criminal cockpit blind concept thief stealing chaos B&W MONOCHROME robber 19th century black & white black and white B W spectator sport 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector cockfighting prig George cock fighting William Hogarth W Hogarth Hogarth William George Paston Paston Symonds Emily Morse Emily Morse Symonds George Paston