Symptoms of kicking [graphic]

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Title: Symptoms of kicking [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 May 1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd May 10th, 1781, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: "A horse is kicking violently, its head down, the rider has lost his seat and his stirrups and is clutching the animal's mane. The scene is a country road, a village is indicated in the distance (right). One of a series of four 'Hints . . .', see British Museum Satires No. 5914."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Series title etched above image; series numbering precedes print title below image.
Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presum's to ride.
"No. 8"--Upper left corner.
Mounted on page 30 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 19.5 x 23.7 mm.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 30. 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 1781
Etchings England London 1781
Stipple engravings England London 1781
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Subjects: Horseback riding
England > 1781
England > London > 1781
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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