How to ride with elegance thro' the streets [graphic].

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Title: How to ride with elegance thro' the streets [graphic].
Alternative Title: How to ride with elegance through the streets
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819--Caricatures and cartoons.
Published / Created: 1800 April 8
Copyright Date: [8 April 1800]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A handsome and fashionable young man rides a spirited horse in profile to the left over a pavement of small stones. He is round-shouldered and rides with hands and feet thrust forward, a cane resting on his right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: Title etched above image.
Two lines of quoted verse below title: "Tis not in mortals to command success, "Arrah but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it."
Extent: 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1800.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Mathew, Montague James, 1773-1819--Caricatures and cartoons.

Access: Public
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Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9560
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 379
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 271