Art, literature & history
The High-mettled Racer
1789
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 33.3 × 42.3 cm (13 1/8 × 16 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.594
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Rowlandson. The High-mettled Racer. Thomas Rowlandson; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Rowlandson,_The_High-mettled_Racer,_1789,_NGA_31373.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The High-mettled Racer — Thomas Rowlandson. 1789.
Medium: hand-colored etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 33.3 × 42.3 cm (13 1/8 × 16 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.594. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.