Showing off [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pub'd Mar[c]h 15, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
[15 March 1787]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching, hand-colored, on laid paper ; sheet 322 x 455 mm.

Notes:

Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Riders falling off -- Sign post to Rumpford.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.

Abstract:

Two riders having trouble with their mounts on a country road with a sign on the left "to Rumpford 2." The rider on the left has lost his stirrups and is handing onto the horse's head. The rider to the right is taking a header and his horse has stumbled and gone down. At the extreme right is the cause -- a barking dog.

Associated Names:

West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850 [Artist]
Fores, S. W. [Publisher]

Topics:

Horses

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1787
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1787
Watermarks (Paper)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

787.03.15.01+

Orbis Record:

7794763

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr06188

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728286

PID:

digcoll:550244