Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 2: A Paviour !!
Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
After George Murgatroyd Woodward British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British
Not on view
One of a set of twelve prints that make fun of different sorts of mounts. Here, a man rides on horseback to the right, carrying a cudgel, his horse blinkered. Text within image above reads: "This is the sort for mending the roads–Never leaves a loose pebble!"