Grown Aged Used Up and Turned out of the Stud (Primary Title)
The High Mettled Racer (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed above image upper center: "THE HIGH METTLED RACER."; upper right: "PL. 5." Printed beneath image lower left: "Hy. Alken, Delt."; lower center: "Grown aged used up and turned out of the stud, / Lame spavin and wind gall'd but yet of some blood, / Whilst knowing postilions his pedigree trace, / And his dam won that sweepstake, his sire gain'd that race; / And what money he made the ostlers count o'er, / As they loiter their time at some hedge Ale house door. / While the harness sore galls and the spurs his side goad, / The high mettled racer's a hack on the Road./ London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean. 26. Haymarket,1828." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "444" (in circle), "HRH/3 / 30/1", "George Birch Reynard Fox" (struck through), "5" and "Leave this rough edge".
Paul Mellon Collection
Catching Sight: The World of British Sporting Print, VMFA, August 31, 2013 - July 13, 2014
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