Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The hobby horse dealer / J. S. [Sheringham] Esqr. delt. ; G. Cruik. fect.

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The hobby horse dealer / J. S. [Sheringham] Esqr. delt. ; G. Cruik. fect.

Published

[London] : G. Humphrey, 1819

hand colored etching
8 3/4 x 13 3/16 inches; with border: 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2097
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

Three dandies inspect a velocipede, which the dealer, bow-legged, horsy, and flashy-looking, holds by the steering-handle. They are outside a stable with an aperture through which look three hungry and startled horses. Above the closed door is a board: 'Stables [scored through] Hobby Horses taken in to mind or Stand at Livery NB a Fine Stud of Real Horses To Be Sold as cheap as dogs meat--The present proprietor going into the Hobby Line.' A lean stable-hand in patched clothes sits against the wall on an overturned bucket, curry-comb and broom beside him.

Associated names
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, engraver.
Humphrey, G., publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department