A Wet Ride Home

Georgina Bowers

1868

Wood engraving

6 x 4 inches

Plate 21 in A Month in the Midlands.

One of the artist’s many representations of the hunt being disrupted by the British weather and the effects of wind and rain. The ragged tree and striations of the pelting rain add to the impression of the journey being anything but an enjoyable event.

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