How to travel upon two legs in a frost [graphic]

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Title: How to travel upon two legs in a frost [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 March 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd March 25th, 1791, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Description: Title from text below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate from: Annals of horsemanship ... London : Printed for W. Dickinson ..., 1791.
Text below title: Ostendunt terris hunc tantum fata neque ultra esse finent.
For a brief mention of the illustrations to Annals of horsemanship, see page 446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Mounted on page 78 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 25.1 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 78. 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: Book illustrations
Satires (Visual works) England 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Stipple engravings England London 1791
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Subjects: Horseback riding
England > 1791
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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