A sailor on the mane, or, A trip to sea [graphic]

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Title: A sailor on the mane, or, A trip to sea [graphic]
Alternative Title: Ttrip to sea
Creator: Heath, William, 1795-1840
Published / Created: [not before 1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A sailor grasps the ears of his horse as he is hurled forward over its neck, just as they reach the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. In the distance is a ship at full mast. Behind them on a cliff is a castle (Dover Castle?).
Description: Title etched below image.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
No. 7 in an album of 10 prints.
Bound in half calf with marbled paper boards and spine title "Colored caricatures" in gold lettering.
Provenance: Given to the Lewis Walpole Library by Shepard Krech in memory of Annie Burr Lewis who died 9 May 1959; May 1959; With the bookplate of Shepard Krech, engraved by E.B. Bird.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Sailors
British
Subjects: Horseback riding
Sailors > British
England > 1812
England > London > 1812

Access: Public
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