Four Scenes: How to Ride Genteel & Agreeable Down Hill; How to be Run Away With; The Mistaken Notion; How to Loose Your Way

Henry William Bunbury

1787 or later · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Four small scenes make gentle fun of various aspects of riding. In "How to Ride Genteel & Agreeable Down Hill,: a man rides slowly. In "How to Run Away With," a rider tilts back in an effort to control his mount and topples a woman with a wheelbarrow. In "The Mistaken Notion," a young man rides to the left, and in "How to Loose Your Way," a rider whose hat has blown down over his eyes in a squall does not see signposts that point to London and Oxford.

Artist

Henry William Bunbury

Date

1787 or later

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970