Hobby-horses go helter-skelter with no brakes
Published by Ackermann in 1819 in its ‘Repository of the Arts’ journal, Four & Twenty Hobby-Horses All of a Row is an amusing coloured aquatint, accompanied by verses (by one L Harrison) that begin “Hobby’s the word, and onward sliding, All London Town is set a-riding:”.
The verses feature some of those who are seen enjoying an exercise that had been all the rage in L…