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By royal authority : A new way of mounting your horse in spite of the gout!!.
etching, hand colored
image: 215 x 333 mm; plate mark: 253 x 360 mm; sheet: 268 x 377 mm
Peel 2018
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London : Pubd. by Sidebotham 96 Strand, [1816?]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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!
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.
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