A bit of blood [graphic]

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Title: A bit of blood [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 August 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Augst. 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club against his right shoulder. Behind him (right) is a signpost: 'The Bridle Way to Horse-Lydown' (a pun on Horselydown, Southwark). In the background are trees and (left) the Thames with ships."--British Museum online 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: Broken kneed horse -- Branded horse -- Signpost: The Bridie Way to Horse-ly Down -- Ships on the Thames.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23 x 19 cm, on sheet 25 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Bunbury 787.08.01.01 Impression 1
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 66. 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 1787
Stipple engravings England London 1787
Book illustrations
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Traffic signs & signals
Ships
Subjects: Horseback riding
Traffic signs & signals
Ships
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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