The mistaken notion [graphic]

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Title: The mistaken notion [graphic]
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [25 June 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, Bond Street
Abstract: "A good-looking young man rides a horse in profile to the left. A park-paling and foliage form a background."--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: Rider on a horse -- Spurs -- Horsemanship.
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 22.8 x 18.6 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.6 x 18.6 cm, on sheet 24 x 20 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 66. 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 1787
Stipple engravings England London 1787
Book illustrations
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: stipple engraving with etching in sepia ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horseback riding
Fences
Subjects: Horseback riding
Fences
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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