How to ride a horse upon 3 legs [graphic].

Description

Title: How to ride a horse upon 3 legs [graphic].
Alternative Title: How to ride a horse upon three legs
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: [appoximately 1800?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from caption below image.
Printmaker from signature on related print of similar design. See Lewis Walpole Library call no.: Bunbury 786.09.01.12.
Date of publication based on the dates of other Rowlandson etchings after Bunbury on the topic of horsemanship. See p. 36-37 in Rowlandson the caricaturist / by Joseph Grego. London, Chatto and Windus, 1880, v. i.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Possibly one of several designs from a single plate. For other designs that may have been cut from the same sheet, see Lewis Walpole Library call nos.: Bunbury 781.05.10.05, Bunbury 781.05.10.06, Bunbury 786.09.01.12, and Bunbury 786.09.01.13.
A greatly reduced copy of no. 7241 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider -- Allusion to York -- Sign-post to York -- Horsemanship -- Three-legged gait.
Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 196.
Provenance: Caricatures II; September 1968;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.5 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > London > 1800
19th century

Access: Public
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