Thomas Rowlandson

The Post Horse (from The Life of a Racehourse, or The High-Mettled Racer)

July 20, 1789

Dating

Exact year

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 1/2 in. (30.3 × 39.3 cm)

Collection no.

59.533.334

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Thomas Rowlandson. The Post Horse (from The Life of a Racehourse, or The High-Mettled Racer). Thomas Rowlandson; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.