How to ride with elegance thro' the streets [graphic].

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Title: How to ride with elegance thro' the streets [graphic].
Alternative Title: How to ride with elegance through the streets
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 April 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, London
Abstract: "A handsome and fashionable young man rides a spirited horse in profile to the left over a pavement of small stones. He is round-shouldered and rides with hands and feet thrust forward, a cane resting on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched above image.
Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Tis not in mortals to command success, "Arrah but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Literature: quotation from Joseph Addison's Cato, I.2.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; March 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 32 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Stipple engravings England London 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching & stipple engraving ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819
Subjects: Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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