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    • Author/Creator:Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, ill.
    • Title:Horse accomplishments.
    • Published/Created:London : Pubd. 1 Aug. 1799, by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand, [1799]
    • Physical Description:12 prints : aquatint ; 27 x 36 cm.

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: Folio A 2011 75
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary blue wrappers, stitched. Title written in ms. on front cover.
    • Notes:Satirical aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson; after George Woodward.
      Imprint from foot of plates.
      All plates have running title: Horse accomplishments.
      Woodward's drawing, "A whistle", reproduced here is now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art (Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.1380).
      "... four of these prints appear in 'A Publican', one of a set of twelve 'Country characters' etched by Rowlandson after Woodward."--Snelgrove.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Contents:An astronomer -- A paviour -- A whistler -- A devotee -- A politician -- A time keeper -- A civilian -- An arithmetician -- A loiterer -- A minuet dancer -- A land measurer -- A vaulter.
    • References:Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p.209
      Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, 9482
      Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, II, p. 113
      Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 397
    • Subjects:Horsemanship--Caricatures and cartoons.
      Horses--Caricatures and cartoons.
      English wit and humor, Pictorial.
      Satire, English.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1799.
      Ackermann, R.--Publisher.
    • Genre/Form:Aquatints--Hand-colored--1799.
    • Also listed under:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, engraver.
      Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9960856