print
- Museum number
- 1906,1016.2.2
- Title
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Object: The Horse-Dealer
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Series: The Costume of Yorkshire
- Description
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A man wearing a top-hat, spotted cravat and spurs standing talking to another and gesturing with a whip to left, where a man is putting a horse through its paces; with two stable-boys by a low stone building in the background to right, larking and mimicking the horse's step; finished state. 1813
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1813
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres (image, excluding border)
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Height: 260 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 298 millimetres (image, excluding border)
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Width: 365 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The 'Costume of Yorkshire' was a series of forty-one etching and aquatints published in ten parts of four plates each, with an additional frontispiece vignette of a horse dealer issued with the last part. They were engraved by Richard Havell, sometimes in collaboration with his brother Daniel, after drawings by George Walker and published in Leeds by Robinson & Son, between August 1813 and June 1814. The accompanying text is in English and French throughout and comprises a title-page, list of contents, introduction and short descriptive texts for each plate. Abbey lists two copies, both hand-coloured. There is a full bound set in BM P&D (1906,1016.2.1-84) which includes also etched states before letters of all the plates. According to Abbey, a facsimile edition was published in Leeds in 1885.
The title-page is lettered: 'The Costume of Yorkshire, illustrated by a series of Forty Engravings, being Fac-Similes of Original Drawings, with Descriptions in English and French. / London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Ackermann, Strand; and Robinson, Son, and Holdsworth, Leeds. / 1814.'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1906,1016.2.2