Showing off [graphic]

Description

Title: Showing off [graphic]
Creator: West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [14 December 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd Decemr. 14, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville St.
Abstract: Two riders have trouble with their mounts on a country road with a sign on the left "to Rumpford 2." The rider on the left has lost his stirrups and is hanging onto the horse's head. The rider to the right is taking a header; his horse has stumbled and gone down
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Satire on horsemanship -- Signs: milestones -- Reference to Rumford -- Male dress: riding habit -- Dogs.
Watermark: Strasburg lily.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33 x 45 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1796
Watermarks (Paper) J Whatman
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1796
England > London > 1796
J Whatman

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