How to ride genteel and agreeable down hill [graphic]

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Title: How to ride genteel and agreeable down hill [graphic]
Alternative Title: How to ride genteel and agreeable downhill
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 September 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Sepr. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A man, smartly dressed and of vulgar appearance, rides (right to left) downhill; his leg is thrust forward, he leans forward, grinning vacantly, his hands resting on the horse's neck, so that his head is low, and the animal is about to stumble over large stones which lie on the road."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787.
Mounted on page 67 in volume 2 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 22.6 x 20 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 67. 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 1786
Stipple engravings England London 1786
Etchings England London 1786
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Subjects: Horseback riding
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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