Showing off

Description

Title: Showing off
Creator: West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850, artist
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [15 March 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub'd Mar[c]h 15, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
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
Description: Title from item.
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.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 32.2 x 46 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Etchings England London 1787
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horses
Subjects: England > 1787
Horses
England > London > 1787

Access: Public
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