A Riding House

(?) Thomas Rowlandson British
 After Henry William Bunbury British
 Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

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This hand-colored etching pokes fun at a range of a range of physiques and abilities, as men on horseback, directed by a riding master who stands at center, moves around an interior with high windows. Bunbury exhibited a drawing of the subject at the Royal Academy in 1778 (no. 393) and it was etched and published two years later by James Bretherton. The printmaker of this ca. 1799 variation has not been identified, but may be Thomas Rowlandson, who produced dozens of Bunbury-inspired satires.

A Riding House, (?) Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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