1836
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Color printed and hand-colored etching and aquatint with touches of stipple engraving on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL
Sheet: 16 11/16 × 21 1/4 in. (42.39 × 53.98 cm)
Plate: 15 × 19 1/2 in. (38.1 × 49.53 cm)
Image: 12 5/16 × 16 9/16 in. (31.27 × 42.07 cm)
Other (matted): 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm)
85.1379
Not on view
Publisher's blindstamp (head of Minerva) in center of lower margin.
Printed beneath image lower left: Painted by J.F. Herring. Printed beneath image lower right: Engraved by C. Hunt. Printed beneath image in center: Rode by John Day./ ELIS, / THE WINNER OF THE GREAT ST. LEGER STAKES AT DONCASTER, 1836, / 75 Subscribers -- 14 Started. / Bred by Mr. Wood at Stockport, -got by Langar out of Olympia (bred by Lord Stamford in 1815) by Sir Oliver-her dam Scotilla, by Anvil, out of Scota by Eclipse- Harmony by Herod, out of Rutilia. / THE PROPORTY OF THE RT. HONBLE. EARL OF LICHFIELD. / To whom this Print by permission is most respectfully dedicated by the Publishers / I.F. HERRING and S & J. FULLER. / London, Published November, 1836, by S & J. FULLER, at their Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite lower right: 22. Inscribed in graphite on verso: c5091/25.
Paul Mellon Collection
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