How to turn any horse, mare or gelding [graphic]

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Title: How to turn any horse, mare or gelding [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. 1st, 1786, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Abstract: "A smartly dressed and vulgar man rides in profile to the left a small thick-set horse which he attempts to turn to the left by pulling the reins on the on side, while the off reins lie on the animal's neck. He also flicks the horse's head with the lash of his whip. In the background is a paling above which appear scarecrows and the windlass of a well."--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.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Temporary local subject terms: Horse and rider.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 23 x 18.1 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Bunbury 786.09.01.09 Impression 1
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 67. 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
Etchings England London 1786
Stipple engravings England London 1786
Book illustrations
Material: etching and stipple engraving with rocker ; and laid paper sepia ink.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Whips
Scarecrows
Subjects: Horseback riding
Whips
Scarecrows
England > 1786
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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