1841
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Color-printed and hand-colored aquatint and stipple engraving on wove paper
Sheet (Trimmed inside upper platemark.): 17 3/8 × 24 1/4 in. (44.13 × 61.6 cm)
Image: 12 3/16 × 16 5/16 in. (30.96 × 41.43 cm)
Other (matted): 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm)
85.1374
Not on view
Heightening to suggest glossy coat of horse.
Printed beneath image lower left: PAINTED BY C. HANCOCK. / at Messrs. Tattersall's. Printed beneath image lower right: ENGRAVED BY J. HARRIS. Printed beneath image in center: LONDON: PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1ST. 1841, BY R. ACKERMANN, AT HIS ECLIPSE SPORTING GALLERY, 191, REGENT STREET. / One Hundred & Thirtyfive Subscribers, Eleven Started./ SATIRIST, / Winner of The Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster 1841, Rode by Wm. Scott. / A brown Horse, bred by The Marquess of Westminster, got by Pantaloon, out of Sarcasm (bred in 1833) by Teniers, dam, Banter, dam of Touchstone, Launcelot, &c. / THE PROPERTY OF THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF WESTMINSTER, / TO WHOM THIS PRINT IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS OBLIGED & VERY HUMBLE SERVANT. Rudolph Ackermann, 191, REGENT STT.
Paul Mellon Collection
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