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1.
Ministerial races [graphic].

Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 July 1812]
Call Number:
812.07.01.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five horses with human heads, ridden by jockeys, race for the half-open door of the Treasury (left), across a wide cobbled pavement. The Regent and Lady Hertford with Lord Hertford standing behind holding his Lord Chamberlain's wand, stand on the pav...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1st, 1812, for the proprietors of Town talk
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquess of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Wellesley, Richard Wellesley, Marquess, 1760-1842, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquess of, 1754-1826, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Great Britain. Treasury
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, John Bull (Symbolic character), Horse racing, Jockeys, Signs (Notices), and Staffs (Sticks)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Ministerial races [graphic].

3.
Fores's racing envelope [graphic].

Creator:
Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1840]
Call Number:
841.00.00.29
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Number five in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's mu...
Description:
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
Publisher:
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Name):
Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Horse racing, Postal stationery, Race horses, and Race tracks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fores's racing envelope [graphic].

4.
[A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 June 1735]
Call Number:
Kinnaird 8K(a) Box 205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionable interior (after the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum) with Tom, in elegant indoor dress, surrounded by tradesmen vying for his custom: a poet, a wigmaker, a tailor, a musician (with a list of presents given by aristocrats to the popul...
Alternative Title:
Rake's progress. Plate 2 and Prosperity, (with Harlot's smiles, most pleasing, when she most beguiles,) ...
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Bridgeman, Charles, -1738., Farinelli, 1705-1782., and Figg, James, -1734.
Subject (Topic):
Harpsichords, Horse racing, Gardeners, Boxers, Musicians, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [A rake's progress]. [graphic] / Plate 2d

5.
Symptoms of training, or, R- method of colt-breaking [graphic].

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, attributed name
Published / Created:
[22 April 1821]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"George IV (right) offers a purse to a pretty young woman in evening dress of theatrical type (right). Through a window (or in a picture) is seen a large signpost, pointing (left) to 'Chester' and (right) to 'Virginia Water' (the Cottage); behind is a...
Alternative Title:
R- method of colt-breaking, Royal method of colt-breaking, and A la Chester-field
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Apl. 22, 1821, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 and Chester, Eliza, 1799-
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Actresses, British, Purses, Couches, Draperies, Windows, Horse racing, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Symptoms of training, or, R- method of colt-breaking [graphic].

6.
The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

Creator:
Dent, William, active 1783-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 22d, 1784.
Call Number:
784.04.22.08+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The candidates for Middlesex and their supporters race (right to left) to Brentford. The foremost rider is Wilkes on a horse wearing a royal crown (indicating George III); he holds up the cap of 'Liberty' on its staff. Half a length behind, and neare...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Brown, Rathbone Place
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, Middlesex (England), and England.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Mainwaring, William, 1735-1821, Byng, George, ca. 1735-1789, Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792, Hall, Edward, active 1784-1793, House, Samuel, -1785, Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Norfolk, Charles Howard, Duke of, 1746-1815, and Great Britain. Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Elections, 1784, Politics and government, Elections, Crutches, Donkeys, Hobby horses, Horse racing, Horses, Justice, Liberty cap, Pharmacists, Political elections, Scales, Symbols, and Traffic signs & signals
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Brentford race for the Middlesex septennial plate [graphic]

7.
Going it! [graphic]

Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 24 1824.
Call Number:
824.11.24.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A similar scene to BM Satires 14721, with awkward, exhibitionist, and dandified riders in place of carriages; one pedestrian, a lady, is in the foreground (right). Legs are thrust forward, toes turned out, down, or up. A man gallops holding one rein ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's St.
Subject (Topic):
Horse racing and Horses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Going it! [graphic]

8.
Displeas'd [graphic]

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1 August 1821]
Call Number:
821.08.01.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Displeased
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Aug. 1st, 1821 by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Horse racing and Horses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Displeas'd [graphic]

9.
Dissatisfied [graphic]

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 August 1821]
Call Number:
821.08.01.06
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two men on horseback race from the left. The horse on the back has stumbled. A signpost reads "No throughfare". Behind a gate, a man in a smock looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Aug. 1st, 1821 by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Horse racing, Horseback riding, and Horses
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Dissatisfied [graphic]

10.
A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
Call Number:
Folio 75 C697 770
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two racing men in consultation on a race-course, with horses, jockeys, and a post-chaise in the background (left). They lean against a paling in front of the gable-end of a wooden barn or stable. One (left), with short unpowdered hair, wears a high-c...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Fences, Gambling, Horse racing, Race horses, Racetracks, and Stables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].

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