Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton; Mathematical Horsemanship

Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

1809 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Four plates printed on one sheet. Plates 1 and 2, "Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton," contain twelve images titled, "Chimney Ornaments," "Improved Trencher," "Hos Norton Recess," Fashionable looking glass," "Fashionable Clock," "The Stocking Sweep," "Colonade of Sheets, "Fashionable Table," "Cabinet frieze," "Sarcophagus Celeret or Coal Scuttle," and "Fashionable Chair." Plates 5 and 6, "Mathematical Horsemanship," show images of men falling off horses in elaborate ways. Plate 5 is titled "Mr. Robert Rasp. letting fall a perpendicular from his Saddle" and Plate 6 is titled "Mr. Benjamin Bukskin, &c his horse performing their evolutions within the Circumference of a Circle."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

Date

1809

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