Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 9: A Loiterer !!
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 farmer with a basket over his arm leaves forward and talks to his standing shaggy pony. Text above reads: "If thee tak'st it into thy head to stand still every five minutes–I should be glad to know at what time I am to get to market?"