DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK,

ON HIS BONNIE BLACK BESS.

(No date nor signpost and 8 line poem)

picture without date printed above silk.

Image of Dick Turpin jumping a toll gate on his horse Black Bess

the image of this silk was kindly donated by Ian Lycett-King, Great Britain

Woven on silk:-

Printed at top of card-mount:-

DICK TURPIN'S RIDE TO YORK,
ON HIS BONNIE BLACK BESS.

Printed at bottom of card-mount:-

REGISTERED.

WOVEN IN THE
YORK EXHIBITION,
1879

Here's a health to her memory; shirk it who dare--
If you love what is noble, pledge Turpin's brave mare ;
And the draught will be welcome, the wine will be good ;
If it have half the spirit and strength of her blood.
May the steed that comes nigh her in courage and fire ;
Carry rider more worthy to make her heart tire ;
Though she saved him, and died to prove what she could do,
Yet her life was most precious by far of the two.

THOMAS STEVENS,
Inventor & Manufacturer
Coventry & London

Card-mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
cm high by cm wide

Other comments:
Sprake does not record this version without the date of 1739 printed in the title above the silk.
Godden mentions that some pictures were issued without this date, but does not then record it.

This page was created on 26 May 2023

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Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
st 145	not recorded	mentioned, but not recorded