Title(s)

Fotoreproductie van een tekening door Thomas Mervyn Bouchier Marshall, voorstellend mensen te paard omringt door vanitas symbolen
“One ot these.-”Death or Glory.” (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-480-9

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘“So he rode, like a mad man, the wild steeple chase; And followed the hounds, like a Tartar; And galloped, like wildfire, at each hurdle-pace, To win it, or die like a martyr.”’
• number: ‘No. 8.’

Description

Verschillende ruiters liggen op de grond, vermoedelijk van hun paard gevallen.

Artist

• maker: anonymous
• after drawing by: Thomas Mervyn Bouchier Marshall

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1885

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 171 mm × width 167 mm

What

• drawing, sketch
• riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman
• 'Vanitas' symbols

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Russell album a memorial of the late Rev. John Russell containing a series of twelve hunting sketches by T.M.B. Marshall (RP-F-2001-7-480)