Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 7: A Civilian !!

Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
After George Murgatroyd Woodward British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

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One of a set of twelve prints that make fun of different sorts of mounts. Here, a man on horseback looks back angrily towards a man seated on the ground as his kicking horse overturns a basket. Text above reads: "That's for contempt of court your scoundrel–my Horse is a Doctor of Civil Law!"

Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 7: A Civilian !!, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching and aquatint

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