How to stop your horse at pleasure [graphic]

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Title: How to stop your horse at pleasure [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. 1, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A horse dashes through an open stable door (left), the building concealing his head and forelegs. The rider stoops to avoid the lintel; his hat flies off. His foot, thrust forward, is about to strike the door-post."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Plate from: An academy for grown horsemen ... / by Geoffrey Gambado [pseud.] ... London : W. Dickinson [etc.], 1787.
Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider.
Mounted on page 68 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 23.2 x 20.6 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 23.3 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 25 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 68. 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 engraving ; and laid paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Doors & doorways
Subjects: Horseback riding
Doors & doorways
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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