Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 8: An Arithmetician !!

George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

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

Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 8: An Arithmetician !! — George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

One of a set of twelve prints that make fun of different sorts of mounts. Here, as his horse kneels, the rider struggles not to fall off. Text above reads: "This I presume is by way of proving to a certainty that two and two makes four!!"

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