The Race Horse (from The Life of a Racehorse, or The High-Mettled Racer)
July 20, 1789
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 13 7/8 × 17 15/16 in. (35.3 × 45.6 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 18 3/16 in. (36 × 46.2 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
59.533.331
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
S. W. Fores|John Hassell|Thomas Rowlandson · 1785–1825
**Samuel William Fores (1761–1838), often credited simply as S. W. Fores, was a leading English publisher and printseller whose Piccadilly shop became a landmark during the Golden Age of Georgian caricature.** Born on 8 March 1761, Fores was the son of a cloth merchant and stationer-bookseller. He was apprenticed to his father in 1775 and completed his training in 1782. The following year he esta...