How to lose your way [graphic]

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Title: How to lose your way [graphic]
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. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A man rides on a country road in profile to the left, facing a squall of wind and rain which beats the brim of his round hat over his face. He approaches a fork in the road with a signpost (left) showing the roads to 'Oxford' and '[L]ondon'. A bag at the back of his saddle shows that he is 'what is called on the road, a rider, a bag-man or bagster'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
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.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 22.5 x 20.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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 : plate mark 224 x 199 mm, on sheet 240 x 210 mm
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
Book illustrations
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Winds
Rain
Traffic signs & signals
Subjects: Horseback riding
Winds
Rain
Traffic signs & signals
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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