Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 6: A Time Keeper !!

George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

August 1, 1799 · Etching and aquatint · Drawings and Prints

One of a set of twelve prints that make fun of different sorts of mounts. Here, a man on horseback ambles along throug the countryside making notes in a book. Text above reads: "This is the finest Horse in the World for a calculation–keeps time to a Second! he goes tis true but like the finest wheels of a clock his motion is scarcely perceptible!"

Artist

George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date

August 1, 1799

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959