Title from caption below image., Plate from: Bridges, T. A burlesque translation of Homer. London, 1797?, Manuscript annotation citing illustration as being from book x, page 127 in unidentified edition., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., No. 61 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club against his right shoulder. Behind him (right) is a signpost: 'The Bridle Way to Horse-Lydown' (a pun on Horselydown, Southwark). In the background are trees and (left) the Thames with ships."--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., and Temporary local subject terms: Broken kneed horse -- Branded horse -- Signpost: The Bridie Way to Horse-ly Down -- Ships on the Thames.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augst. 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Ships
Volume 2, page 66. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man canters in profile to the left on a lean and broken-kneed horse whose hind-quarter is branded. He has only one rein attached to ill-fitting harness, and sits with his leg thrust forward and holds a club against his right shoulder. Behind him (right) is a signpost: 'The Bridle Way to Horse-Lydown' (a pun on Horselydown, Southwark). In the background are trees and (left) the Thames with ships."--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., Temporary local subject terms: Broken kneed horse -- Branded horse -- Signpost: The Bridie Way to Horse-ly Down -- Ships on the Thames., Mounted on page 66 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 23.0 x 18.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd Augst. 1st, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Ships
A collection of prints and one drawing (tentatively attributed to Samuel Collings), mostly portraits of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, mounted in Walpole's copy of James Boswell's The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson (London : Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785).
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Also bound in are three prints described in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum; these are cataloged separately.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784,, Boswell, James, 1740-1795,, Boufflers, Marie Charlotte Hippolyte, countess of, 1725-1800,, Macpherson, James, 1736-1796,, and Boswell, James, 1740-1795.
Cover-title. and Plates printed on a continuous strip of paper, folded in Japanese fashion ; linen backed ; portrait of the publisher Tilt on back cover. cf. A. M. Cohn, George Cruikshank, no. 189.
Title from caption below image., Publication date from local card catalog record., and Text below title: If it is really a genuine piece of antiquity, it is worth five hundred pounds, but if modern, not more than five pounds.
Title etched below image., Plate from: The antiquarian repertory. London : Printed for the proprietors, and sold by Francis Blyth ... and T. Evans ..., 1775, v. 1, opposite page 89., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Mounted on page 74 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Title from caption below image., Plate from book: Joe Lisle's play upon words, pub by Thomas McLean, 1828., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
