"Satire on a Cambridge student: a young man on horseback with a macaroni queue holding out a driving whip as if it is a lance and galloping to right; the horse is defecating; a hound runs beside them; in the distance on the right King's College Chapel."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Printmaker and date of publication from description of an earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Early state, before additional shading of the figures and more ground detail added in drypoint. For a later state before these additions to the plate, see no. 4724 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 115 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d Jany. 1783.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 28. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 87. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly country parson, in profile to the right, on a horse which rears almost vertically, he clasps the animal round the neck, and is seated on his hind-quarters, having lost his stirrups and slipped from the saddle. His whip flies through the air behind him, his coat-tails fly out, and the sheets of his sermon inscribed 'IOB' protrude from his pocket. A small dog (left) rushing towards the animal's hind-legs and barking furiously appears to have caused the 'symptoms of rearing'. The parish clerk, with two large volumes under his arm, beside the horse, looks over his right shoulder and stoops or runs to escape being trampled on. Trees and a church steeple are indicated in the background (right). A similar subject to British Museum Satires Nos. 5914-17, also by Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Moses., Mounted on page 87 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 25.7 x 36.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.