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Symptoms of kicking
Title
Symptoms of kicking [graphic] / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; Watson & Dickinson excudt.
Publication
London : Publish'd May 10th, 1781, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, [10 May 1781]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and stipple engraving ; sheet 19.5 x 23.7 mm.
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Series title etched above image; series numbering precedes print title below image.
Two lines of verse below title: Ah me! what various ills betide the looby who presum's to ride.
"No. 8"--Upper left corner.
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.
Summary
"A horse is kicking violently, its head down, the rider has lost his seat and his stirrups and is clutching the animal's mane. The scene is a country road, a village is indicated in the distance (right). One of a series of four 'Hints . . .', see British Museum Satires No. 5914."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2020
Series
Hints to bad horsemen ; no. 3
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5, no. 5916
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1781.
Etchings - England - London - 1781.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1781.
Also listed under
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
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