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Bay Malton (Primary Title)

after, Francis Sartorius, English, 1734 - 1804 (Artist)
John June, English, active 1740 - 1770 (Engraver)

1770
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Etching and engraving on heavy laid paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 5/16 × 11 1/4 in. (18.57 × 28.58 cm)
Plate: 6 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (17.46 × 27.62 cm)
Image: 5 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (15.08 × 25.88 cm)
85.1438.2
Not on view
Signed in plate lower right: June
Printed beneath image lower left: F.Sortorius pinxt. Printed beneath image lower right: June fecit. Printed beneath image in center: Bay Malton; this most Excellent Horse was never beat, being so Eminent for his Running, is the Property of the Right Honble. the Marquis of Rockingham, he Won 5 Capital Sweepstakes of / 1000, 500 & 400 Guineas each, he beat the famous Gray Horse Gimcrack at Newmarket for 1000 Guineas, he beat Lord Grosvenor's Cardinal Puff for the Whip, likewise Sr. James Lowthers Askam for / the Jockey Club Plate (he also Receiv'd several Forfeits) at Newmarket, which was the last time he started or perhaps ever will, he being design'd for a Stallion./ Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street. Publish'd as the Act directs 1st. July 1770. Inscribed in graphite upper right: 5.
Paul Mellon Collection
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