
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.

Entrance to the Adelphi Wharf, plate 11 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850) published by Rodwell and Martin

Horses Exercising, plate 6 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850) published by Rodwell and Martin

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824) printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850) published by Rodwell and Martin