J. Sidebotham
By royal authority : A new way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!.
Published
London : Pubd. by Sidebotham 96 Strand, [1816?]
etching, hand colored
image: 215 x 333 mm; plate mark: 253 x 360 mm; sheet: 268 x 377 mm
Peel 2018
Notes
Title etched below image.
Cartoon probably inspired by accounts of a "mounting machine" devised to help Prince Regent onto his horse during his stay at Brighton in 1816.
Below title: Dedicated to all fashionable Equestrians afflicted with that Malady!
Cartoon probably inspired by accounts of a "mounting machine" devised to help Prince Regent onto his horse during his stay at Brighton in 1816.
Below title: Dedicated to all fashionable Equestrians afflicted with that Malady!
Provenance
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Summary
Print shows the gouty Prince Regent being helped on to his horse by Chinese assistants using an elaborate contraption outside Chinese Pavilion at Brighton(?), with a pagoda resembling the one in Kew Gardens in the background at left.
Associated names
Sidebotham, J. publisher.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
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