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Description

Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 6: A Time Keeper
signed 'H. Bunbury. Del.' (lower left)
inscribed 'This is the finest Horse in the World for a calculation–keeps time to a Second! he goes tis true but like the finest wheels of a clock his motion is scarcely perceptible!'
watercolour, pen and ink on paper
18.5 x 22cm



Footnote:

The present composition is most likely copied from the etching of this subject by Thomas Rowlandson after George Murgatroyd Woodward, originally published in 1799.



Condition report:

28 x 31.5cm (framed)

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