How to stop a runaway horse [graphic].

Description

Title: How to stop a runaway horse [graphic].
Published / Created: [7 May 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 7, 1789, by J. Kendal Bury
Abstract: Two sailors, one in uniform, fall from a horse, its reins caught on a post on the road, causing both it and the riders to collapse
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Text below title: A horse running away with two sailors, the lad who rode behind, exclaim'd run her aground, run her a ground, avast reply'd the other, I can throw out the grapples. He accordingly manag'd to throw the reins over a post by the road side & so came safe to land.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis on crowned shield with initials G R below.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. iv.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Sailors
Horses
Horseback riding
Accidents
Falling
Subjects: Sailors
Horses
Horseback riding
Accidents
Falling
England > 1789
England > London > 1789

Access: Public
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