Proof inscribed with artist's directions to the engraver: "All right barring upper right hand corner"; detailed instructions added at upper right: "Black mark gray. Woman's mouth gray. This corner rather rough keep gray I will then send this lot back as it is. The darks tell as blacks. Man's foot gray only"; initialed at right: W.S.
Touched India paper proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by W. Small for an unidentified publication.
A young man holds a bottle to the mouth of a fallen horse while a group of two men and a woman stoop over him and watch; steam rises from the horses body and in the background a crown looks on and an armed man with a bandaged eye approaches down a flight of steps.