London Outrider, or Brother Saddlebag
September 10, 1799
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 8 9/16 in. (27.3 × 21.8 cm) Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 13/16 in. (24.5 × 19.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.681
Tags
Art Historical Context
This hand-colored etching, titled *London Outrider, or Brother Saddlebag*, was published in London on September 10, 1799, by Rudolph Ackermann. It represents a collaboration between caricaturist George Murgatroyd Woodward, who likely supplied the design, and Thomas Rowlandson, whose lively etching technique brought the scene to life. Measuring roughly 9 5/8 by 7 13/16 inches on the plate, the print belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of works on paper. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, such affordable, hand-colored etchings formed a lively part of British visu...