The high mettled racer [graphic]

Description

Title: The high mettled racer [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Fores, S.W., publisher.
Published / Created: [30 June 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. June 30, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of verse etched on both sides of title: See the course thronged with gazers ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Provenance: From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.5 x 44.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Horse racing
Horseback riding
Carriages & coaches
Subjects: Horse racing
Horseback riding
Carriages & coaches
England > 1789
England > London > 1789
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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