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True Blew (Primary Title)
12 Prints of High-Bred Running Horses, Drawn from the Life... (Primary Title)

James Roberts, English, 1725 - 1799 (Artist)

18th century
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Etching and engraving on heavy laid paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 3/16 in. (18.73 × 28.42 cm)
Plate: 7 1/8 × 10 7/8 in. (18.1 × 27.62 cm)
Image: 6 3/16 × 10 1/4 in. (15.72 × 26.04 cm)
85.1442.6
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite in upper right corner: 7. Printed beneath image lower left: Jams. Roberts Delin. Printed beneath image lower right: H. Roberts Sculp. Printed in lower margin: The Portraiture of Sir Charles Sidley's Bay Gelding TRUE BLEW Taken from the Life. / He Won 15 Valuable Hunters Prizes, at Nottingham, Litchfield, Aylesbury, Derby, Burford, Hounslow, Chipping-Norton, / Rugby, Newmarket, &c,/ Printed for Robt. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.
Paul Mellon Collection
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