How to stop your horse at pleasure [graphic]

Description

Title: How to stop your horse at pleasure [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A horse dashes through an open stable door (left), the building concealing his head and forelegs. The rider stoops to avoid the lintel; his hat flies off. His foot, thrust forward, is about to strike the door-post."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787.
Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider.
Watermark, partially trimmed.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.3 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 25 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Bunbury 786.09.01.08 Impression 1
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 68. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Stipple engravings England London 1786
Book illustrations
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: stipple engraving with etching and engraving ; and laid paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Horseback riding
Doors & doorways
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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