Life and death of the race horse

Life and death of the race horse

Item Information

Title:
Life and death of the race horse
Description:
This print is divided into six stages. The first represents the foal by the side of his dam ; in the second he is pictured as a racer on the course in all the pride of strength and beauty, blood and limb. In the third stage he has come down to a hunter ; from thence, with old age fast approaching, he is used to run in a postchaise. In the fifth plate we find the racehorse grown aged and broken down, and condemned to end his wretched days belaboured as a pack-horse. In the last stage the racehorse's career is brought down to his death, and a huntsman has purchased his carcass to feed his pack.
Artist:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:
Rowlandson Del
Date:
September 25, 1811
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Caricatures
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:
The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3
Subjects:
Horses
Horseback riding
Dogs
Hunters
Horse racing
Death
Extent:
1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
Permalink:
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Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
111 Cheapside, London : T. Tegg
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Grego, II, 115, 211-2
On item: 90
Notes (acquisition):
The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 3," the third volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:
18_03_000675
Barcode:
36666003261167