Horse and drunk huntsman crashing through a shop window, 19th century. Caingey Thornton in hunting pinks on Hercules, followed by Mr. Sponge on Multum in Parvo. Shopclerks and customers at Messrs Frippery and Flummery look up in shock. Hercules takes a draper’s shop. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees’ Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, Bradbury and Evans., London, 1853.

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