A daisy Cutter with his Varieties

Henry William Bunbury

A daisy Cutter with his Varieties

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.

A rider and his horse are both startled by a pig laying on the ground before them. The horses front left leg has knocked into the slumbering pig, the horses head turned up, with mouth open wide. The rider, who has lost his hat, looks down astonished at the scene below