# Horses Going to a Fair, plate 3 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)

- By: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850); published by Rodwell and Martin)
- Date: February 1821
- Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 25.4 × 35.7 cm (10 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 37.8 × 49.6 cm (14 15/16 × 19 9/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg; Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/121987)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2a121e83-e322-9ccb-221a-d2f2162c6079/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

These lithographs from The English Suite exhibit Théodore Géricault’s attention to working horses and the urban poor of 19th-century London. Two prints depict the horse-shoeing process; in one, the French farrier holds the horse’s hoof while an apprentice prepares a horseshoe in the back room. In another print, a Flemish farrier affixes the hot metal. In the pair of prints, an elderly man and woman are stranded in the city streets; bakers ignore the man slumped below their open shop window.

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