A Mistake at New Market, or Sport and Piety
October 5, 1807
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (26 × 35 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.997
Tags
Art Historical Context
**A Mistake at New, or Sport and P** (1807) is a hand-colored etching by British satirists George Murgatroyd and Thomas Rowlandson, by Thomas Tegg. 10¼ × 13¾ inches, this lively print captures the cheeky spirit of Regency-era caricature, blending humor with social commentary. Newmarket, England's premier horse-racing hub, serves as the backdrop for a comical "mistake," juxtaposing rowdy "sport" with mock "piety," likely skewering the era's hypocrisies among the upper classes. Rowlandson, a master of aquatint and etching known for his exaggerated, bawdy scenes of human folly, teams here with W...