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

1787 or later

Not on view

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.

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Title: Four Scenes: How to Stop your Horse at Pleasure; Geoffrey Gombado Esq-r.; How to Ride up Hyde Park; A Bit of Blood
Series/Portfolio: Academy for Grown Horsemen
Artist: After Henry William Bunbury (British, Mildenhall, Suffolk 1750–1811 Keswick, Cumberland)
Date: 1787 or later
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions: Each image: 5 5/16 × 4 3/16 in. (13.5 × 10.7 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 1/2 in. (39 × 26.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970
Object Number: 1970.541.202
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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