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Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock

Joseph Parry (1756–1826)

Manchester Art Gallery

Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock

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Village scene depicting a festival and the tradition of 'racing for the smock'. A field has been converted into a temporary race course over which three men race on donkeys, the foremost on the left almost unseated as his donkey bucks. Crowds cheer them on to left and right, two figures balancing in a tree above the crowd to the left, the frilled smock pinned to a cross held by the crowd on the right. There is a wood-beamed public house in the background to the left, amongst the trees with a church tower just visible behind it.

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Title

Eccles Wakes: Racing for the Smock

Date

1808

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 71.7 x W 91.8 cm

Accession number

1927.12

Acquisition method

purchased from Messrs Haworth and Sons, 1927

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : bl : artist's name, place, date : Jos. Parry / Manch / (1)808 (?)

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Joseph Parry

1756–1826

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