Entertainment for man and horse [graphic].

Description

Title: Entertainment for man and horse [graphic].
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [25 October 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Oct. 25, 1793, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Scene outside an inn with the sign of the 'Half-way House', at the base of which two horses with saddles and blinkers are feeding, their riders standing at left by an out-building; horse and trap outside the inn at right, a man with a whip seated in the trap, the horse approaching a trough; in the upstairs windows of the inn, a man smoking a long pipe, and a man embracing a woman with a large hat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1937,0719.3.
Plate originally published in 1784 according to the British Museum online catalogue.
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 Half-way house.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki; February 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1793
Etchings England London 1793
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carts & wagons
Horses
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Carts & wagons
Horses
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1793
England > London > 1793

Access: Public
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