Four Scenes: How to Stop your Horse at Pleasure; Geoffrey Gombado Esq-r.; How to Ride up Hyde Park; A Bit of Blood

After Henry William Bunbury British

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Four small scenes make gentle fun of various aspects of riding. In "How to Stop Your Horse at pleasure," a man rides full tilt into a barn and places his feet on the door frame. In "Geoffrey Gombado" (as pseudonym used by the artist Bunbury), a gouty man sits by a table grumpily holding a crutch while eyeing his boots. In "How to Ride up Hyde Park," a man gallops to the left and turns his head to grin at the viewer. Finally, in "A Bit of Blood, " a man in a red coat and carrying a cudgel and rides near a signpost lettered "The Bridle Way. Horselydown," with a coastal view at right.

Four Scenes: How to Stop your Horse at Pleasure; Geoffrey Gombado Esq-r.; How to Ride up Hyde Park; A Bit of Blood, After Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750–1811 Keswick, Cumberland), Hand-colored etching

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