An Old Slave

Artist Jack B Yeats (1871 - 1957)

Datec. 1911

MediumPen, ink and watercolour on paper

Dimensions25.8 × 19 cm

ClassificationsMixed Media

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Lane Bequest, 1913. © The Estate of Jack Butler Yeats.

Object number197

DescriptionThis is a coloured drawing of a jockey riding a racehorse at the trot in a grassy field. The horse is light brown. The jockey is wearing white trousers, a scarlet red waistcoat, a grey shirt and a black cap. There are tents in the background with figures working around them. In the distance are low mountains. The black vertical lines in the sky indicate the rain.

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