Bridgeman, G

John Jorrocks, Esq. : Four depictions of Surtees's colorful fox-huntinghero of Handley Cross and other sporting novels; watercolor on board, eachsigned G. Bridgman and dated 1882

n.p, 1882 Of Bridgman, Mitchell notes, “Little can be traced of this caricaturist whose figures allhave delightful smiling faces with rosy cheeks and noses. A set of four hunting watercollours is recorded, as is “Boxing night at the music hall”. It is possible that the watercolors mentioned are the ones offered here; they appear to have been done as illustrations to one of Surtees's novels, probably his masterpiece, Handley Cross Size 10-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches. The Cockney grocer, resplendent in hunting scarlet and mounted on his intermittently faithful Arterxerxes, is shown waving a greeting to cap-touching rurals, approaching a stream during a hunt, emerging safely on the other side, and wending his way home as dusk falls. . Mitchell, British Equestrian Artists, p. 134

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