A riding-house [graphic]

Description

Title: A riding-house [graphic]
Creator: Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: 15 Feby. 1780.
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Published by Js. Bretherton
Abstract: A view of the interior of a riding-school: A number of men riding round in a circle; those in the foreground ride from right to left, those in the background from left to right. The riding-master stands in the centre, pointing with hand and cane, and grinning at a short fat man in a clerical wig who is running across the room, alarmed at the horses. A short obese man in back-view on the extreme right, who is about to mount his horse has been identified as Captain Grose. Next him is a man with a grotesque impression of alarm riding a plunging horse. Among the riders are two with clerical wigs. One horse is galloping, out of control, the others are quietly ambling round. Two sides of a high rectangular room or hall are visible; in each wall are two high arch-topped windows
Description: Title etched below image.
Provenance: Gift of Anthony Fons; November 2019.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 41.2 x 57 cm, sheet 44.7 x 60 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 780.02.15.03++
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 19. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 117. Bunbury album.
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Etchings England 18th century
Watermarks (Paper) J. Whatman
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britian.
Subject (Name): Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791,
Subject (Topic): Riding schools
Horsemanship
Clergy
Dogs
Horses
Horseback riding
Teachers
Wigs
Subjects: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 > Caricatures and cartoons
Riding schools > Caricatures and cartoons
Horsemanship > Caricatures and cartoons
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Clergy > Great Britian
Dogs
Horses
Horseback riding
Teachers
Wigs
England > 18th century
J. Whatman
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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