[Powerful exercise on horseback] — illustration for G. W. M. Reynolds’s “The Mysteries of London” by G. Stiff

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Powerful exercise on horseback

G. Stiff

1846

Wood engraving

Source: The Project Gutenberg version of G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London

This plate, which like the others in the book, has no caption. It appears a chapter before the passage it illustrates (see below).

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Passage illustrated

For two months had he [Lord Ravensworth] been subject to a mysterious and deeply-rooted disease,—which one physician treated as atrophy, and which another honestly confessed he could not comprehend,—when about the beginning of the year, he had yielded to the entreaties of his wife and removed to Ravensworth Hall. There he appeared to rally for a few days,—taking powerful exercise on horseback and on foot. — Volume 2, Chapter 203, “Ravensworth”

Bibliography

Reynolds, George W. M. The Mysteries of London. vol 2. London: George Vickers, 1846. Project Gutenberg EBook #51294. Produced by Richard Tonsing, Chuck Greif, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Web. 3 October 2016.

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