The Dunmow Flitch: the winning couple are carried through the crowded street in a litter, preceded by a person holding the flitch aloft on the end of a stick. Lithograph after David Ogborne.
- Ogborne, David, 1700-1768.
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- 28871i
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The Dunmow Flitch is a prize [of a flitch of bacon] awarded to a married couple able to pass a whole year without quarrelling
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1 print : lithograph ; sheet 36.2 x 49.1 cm
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An exact perspective view of Dunmow, late the Priory in the County of Essex... Engraved from an original painting taken on the spot by David Ogborne.
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Wellcome Collection 28871i
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