1838
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Color-printed and hand-colored aquatint with stipple engraving on wove paper
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark): 15 × 17 1/16 in. (38.1 × 43.34 cm)
Image: 12 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (31.12 × 42.86 cm)
Other (matted): 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm)
85.1373
Not on view
Printed beneath image lower left: PAINTED BY C. HANCOCK, / at Messrs- Tattersall's. Printed beneath image lower right: ENGRAVED BY E. DUNCAN. Printed beneath image in center: LONDON, PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1ST- 1838, BY R. ACKERMANN, AT HIS ECLIPSE SPORTING GALLERY, 191, REGENT STREET./ Sixty Six Subscribers, Seven Started./ DON JOHN. / Winner of The Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster, 1838, Rode by W. Scott. / Bred in 1835, by Mr. Garforth--by Tramp or Waverley (the latter known to be his Sire) out of a Comus Mare, (bred in 1820 or 1821, by Mr. Garforth) her dam, Marciana, by Stamford, out of Marcia, by Coriander. / THE PROPERTY OF THE RIGHT HONBLE. THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. / TO WHOM THIS PRINT IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS VERY OBLIGED SERVANT, Rudolph Ackermann. 191, Regent St.
Paul Mellon Collection
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