Life and Death of the Race Horse
1. A foal lies beside its mother
2. The owner leads the horse across a race-course
3. A huntsman rides the horse over a wall with hounds running beside it
4. He is one of a pair of galloping horses in a post-chaise
5. As an emaciated pack-horse he plods along a rough track
6. A huntsman stands on his dead body, cutting off the flesh for the hounds
Artwork Details
- Title: Life and Death of the Race Horse
- Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
- Publisher: Thomas Tegg (British, London 1776–1846 London)
- Date: [September 25, 1811], reprint
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 13 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (34.9 × 24.7 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 in. × 10 in. (36 × 25.4 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.533.1456
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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