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Raphael Lamar West
1769-1850
A fat buck of Hyde Park
etching, hand colored
image: 231 x 302 mm; sheet: 250 x 314 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2546
Published:
[London] : Pubd Jan 1 1787 by S W Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No 3 Piccadilly, [1787]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Inscribed "Weltjie" twice in ink below image.
Notes:
Printmaker from British Museum online catalog.
Bottom of image at lower left: Gentlemens Designs executed gratis.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
A stout man [possibly intended as a caricature of Louis Weltje] rides a trotting horse in profile to the right. followed by a dog. He rises from the saddle with his legs thrust forward, pulling hard at the curb with both hands; the snaffle rein lies on the lean horse's neck and the horse raises its head in distress as it defecates. He wears a broad-brimmed round hat and a coat buttoned across his chest by a single button.
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