print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1937,0719.3
- Title
- Object: Entertainment for man and horse
- Description
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Scene outside an inn with the sign of the 'Half-way House', at the base of which two horses with saddles and blinkers are feeding, their riders standing at left by an out-building; horse and trap outside the inn at right, a man with a whip seated in the trap, the horse approaching a trough; in the upstairs windows of the inn, a man smoking a long pipe, and a man embracing a woman with a large hat.
Etching, very deeply bitten
- Production date
- 1784 (c.)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 247 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 333 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pencil note on the verso suggests the print was published in 1784, and states that it was re-issued by Fores in 1793.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0719.3
