His hat is enormous and very gay.

He is rather of sad countenance.

An elevation of his collar behind the ears, and pointed at the neck, gives you notions of his having dropped from some hook.

He stands with his forefinger extended, like a disused semaphore-post, that seems tumbling and desponding on the hill by the highroad, in his attitude while telling the tale; if standing it may be called, where the whole figure appears imploring for a seat.
That was his natural position, as one would suppose any artist must have thought, and a horse beneath him.

But it has been suggested that the artist in question was no painter of animals.