Tricks upon Travellers

Henry William Bunbury

Tricks upon Travellers

London, W. Dickinson, March 25^th. 1791

Etching with stipple engraving.

250 x 210 mm

£150

A wry and gentle series of caricatures on the hazards of horse riding. Annals of Horsemanship

As a gentleman amateur, Bunbury (1750-1811), took up caricature as a source of amusement rather than income.

Two giggling ostlers clamp a stick under the horse’s tail of an enraged traveller, causing it to buck violently