Photograph, Print, or Drawing (Part of Collection)"A horse-breaker: backing the favourite to a heavy amount"
Personal name
Main title
- "A horse-breaker: backing the favourite to a heavy amount" [graphic].
Published/Created
- 1833 [publication date]
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Description
- 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; 11.8 x 8 cm. (sheet)
Rights advisory
- No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in Copyright Office.
LC classification
- SWANN - no. 775eee
Summary
- An artist's proof in which an extremely obese woman sits astride a skinny horse, which does not move despite her whip.
Other Subjects
- Horseback riding--1820-1840.
- Obesity--1820-1840.
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Notes
- Inscribed, lower left: "Comic Offering" 1833. p. 51.
- No copyright information found with item.
- One item from album entitled: Collection of sketches and prints by R. Seymour.
- Signed in plate, lower left: R.S.
- Title inscribed below image.
- Published in: Comic Offering, 1833, p. 51.
Acquisition source
- Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.579)
Collection
LCCN
- 2009617670
Other system no.
- (DLC)swa1994002015/PP
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print opens in a new window
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing (Part of Collection)
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- Prints & Photographs Reading Room (Madison, LM337)
Status
- Not Charged