Symptoms of rearing [graphic]

Description

Title: Symptoms of rearing [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd 23d Jany. 1783.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "An elderly country parson, in profile to the right, on a horse which rears almost vertically, he clasps the animal round the neck, and is seated on his hind-quarters, having lost his stirrups and slipped from the saddle. His whip flies through the air behind him, his coat-tails fly out, and the sheets of his sermon inscribed 'IOB' protrude from his pocket. A small dog (left) rushing towards the animal's hind-legs and barking furiously appears to have caused the 'symptoms of rearing'. The parish clerk, with two large volumes under his arm, beside the horse, looks over his right shoulder and stoops or runs to escape being trampled on. Trees and a church steeple are indicated in the background (right). A similar subject to British Museum Satires Nos. 5914-17, also by Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Companion print to: Moses.
Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 25.7 x 36.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28.7 x 41.2 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 28. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 87. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]