"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 13/16 inches (21.1 × 27.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with black ink, lower center: "Swishing at a Rasper. from your own timidity and mismanagement caused the Horse | to Swave, and at last to Bolt through the only bad Place in the Fence Leaving you | behind in the elegant attitude of the Spread Eagle."; inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "25"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "HRH 12 - 4"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.536
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sporting art | hill | horseback riders | leaping | horses (animals) | jumping | hunters | horseback riding | trees | hunting | falling | hunt | branches | men