One way to stop your horse [graphic]

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Title: One way to stop your horse [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 man rides a dray horse in profile to the left, leaning back and pulling hard at the reins (especially the snaffle), but the horse is stopped by the side of a hackney coach (left) through whose window is seen an agitated female hand. The driver turnes round angrily, holding up his whip."--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.
Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 22.6 x 20.1 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 22.4 x 19.9 cm, on sheet 24 x 21 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 66. 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
Book illustrations
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Carriages & coaches
Horseback riding
Subjects: Carriages & coaches
Horseback riding
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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