A Time Keeper!! (Primary Title)
Horse Accomplishments (Series Title)
George Moutard Woodward, English, ca. 1760 - 1809 (Artist)
Note application of opaque, thicker paint with pin pricks in center for buttons.
Printed above image upper center: Horse Accomplishments. Sketch 6. Printed within image upper center: This is the finest Horse in the World for a calculator-- keeps time / to a Second! he goes tis true but like the finer wheels of a clock / his motion is scarcely perceptable. Printed beneath image lower left: Woodward Delin. Printed beneath image lower right: Rowlandson sculp. Printed beneath image in center: London Pub. 1 Augt 1799 by R Ackermann 101 Strand/ A TIME KEEPER!! Inscribed in graphite on verso: HRH 15 / 36A / 2.
Paul Mellon Collection
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