Italian Hand Colored Engraving by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein: Framed; Based on the Original Collection of Sir William Hamilton's Ancient Vases

The horse has already seen how this is going to go.

A hand-colored engraving by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, made in Naples, Italy, about 1791, in ink on paper and framed. It reproduces a scene from Sir William Hamilton's ancient vases. Collectors and designers across Europe studied such plates, and they helped spread the taste for classical antiquity through the late 18th century. Here a rider on a rearing horse levels a spear at a naked man who raises his arm to strike. The orange figures stand out cleanly against black. 27 inches wide, in a heavy black frame.

Centuries on, neither has backed down.