Life and Death of the Race Horse
Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson
September 25, 1811 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
Six scenes of the life and death of a racehorse: 1. A foal lies beside its mother 2. The owner leads the horse across a race-course 3. A huntsman rides the horse over a wall with hounds running beside it 4. He is one of a pair of galloping horses in a post-chaise 5. As an emaciated pack-horse he plods along a rough track 6. A huntsman stands on his dead body, cutting off the flesh for the hounds
- Artist
- Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson
- Date
- September 25, 1811
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959