John Frederick Herring, Sr., British
“Listen, This Is the Dressage Competition at the Olympics. You and I Have To Project a Certain Level of Sophistication. Give Me Your Gum,” 1839
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (the second of which may be unresponsive), perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page.
/// To be bred was this fine stallion’s fate,
and the mares were all eager to mate
with a stud of such “size.”
He’d been raised (no surprise)
in the stables of Catherine the Great.
/// He’d run off from the officers’ quarters
and was found near the neighboring borders.
He had reason to spurn
that command to return:
From a bellboy he wouldn’t take orders.
Sadly, Chestnut was the only one amused by Jasper’s rendition of “I’m a little teapot.”