A man and a woman riding on horseback outside Cambridge: the man's horse is flatulent. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
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The letter that refers to the print purports to be by one George Gillyflower of St John's College Cambridge. He complains that his horse suffers from flatulence from the rear, and that his lady friend refuses to ride with him unless he has it cured, which he does with the aid of some medicinal powders supplied by a farrier
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[England] : [publisher not identified]
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1 print : etching, with stipple ; platemark 25.5 x 21.1 cm
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Love and wind. Juvenum pulcherimus alter, altera, quas Oriens habuit, prælata puellis. Ovid. H. Bunbury Esqr. delin.
The Latin tag is from Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 55-56, describing Pyramus and Thisbe
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Wellcome Collection 28510i
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