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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 pavement (left) watching the finish. The winning horse, Liverpool, is a piebald, with an earl's coronet round his neck, and branded 'H'. Next is Wellesley, a marquis's coronet round his neck, ridden by a jockey in oriental dress with a jewelled turban, who looks over his shoulder, saying: "Come Grey push on you'll let Pye Ball win else." Next is Moira, a blue ribbon round his neck representing the Garter granted on 12 June (which he had refused on 28 Feb., see 'Corr. of George IV', i. 29, 34-5), close behind is Grey; last is Grenville. Lady Hertford, as umpire, exclaims: "Bravo Pye Ball you have fairly won." Lord Hertford cries: "Huzza Pye Ball for ever." The Regent turns to a stout John Bull, to say: "Come Johny out with your Cash your favorite has lost you see." John puts out a protesting hand, saying, "No No D--e if I do! I'm off, why its a proper cross and Jostle I d'ont like the Umpire neither." John wears a top-hat and top-boots, his pockets bulge with money-bags, and he holds a cudgel. In the roadway is a cob or pony with the face of Sheridan, branded 'P R', ridden by the stout Yarmouth, from whose pocket projects a paper: 'The Milling Hero a Poem', see No. 11746, &c.; he is too large for his mount, and says: "Softly! Softly! poor Old Sherry, Oh my poor bones are in danger!" The animal kicks, saying: "It's a d--d dirty Job to carry such a -- but as I carried your Master [the Regent] through before you hold fast and I'll take you to the end." In the foreground (right) a man stands full-face, shouting; he holds a tall pole on which is a placard: 'The Treasury Sweepstakes for high-bred Hunters 4 Heats The M-ch-ss of H--s Pyebald Colt Liverpool ------- 1, dr, dr, 1 Iohn Bulls favorite ch. f. Moira -------dr, 2, 1, 3 The Fox Clubs b. f ----Grey ----4, 3, 2, dr The East-India Company's Oriental filly Wellesly 3, 1, 3, 2 The well known Pit [Pitt] bred horse Grenville 2, 4, 4, 4 This match was very hardly contested, the Jockey Club decided that the first heat was unfairly won, and the last it is supposed will be subject to a similar decree; but the P-- R-- to whom the decision of the Club was referrd overruled the first objection. Bets at starting 2 to 1 on Moira; and at the commencement of the third heat 2 to 1 on Moira against the field Same Day The Exchequer plate for Colts half bred The Earl of Liverpool's black Colt Vansittart 1, 3, 3, 1 Marquis of Wellesleys gr C. Grant 3, 1, 2, 3 Earl Moirds ch. G Huchisson 2, 2, 1, 2 This Race like the preceeding one has excited much difference of opinion amongst the members of the Club. N.B A match will be made before the Club breaks up between the R--s old Hack and any Noted Horse that may be chosen to start against him, the Hack will carry double and any bet staked on his winning Mac Sycophant [McMahon] Secty.' Beside this notice are betting men. Three say: "How pye Ball dashes in, he has jockey'd them there he goes!"; "Da--me Johny seems in a Passion"; "Aye he 's [word scored through] Humbugg'd! The other spectators: Why the knowing ones are taken in"; "dish'd by Jupiter" [the Prince], and, "I rather think they are dish'd by Juno, she seems to be umpire." In the background are other spectators, on foot, on horseback, and in a coach."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Plate from: Town talk; or, Living manners, v. 2, page 437.
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].

2. The high mettled racer [graphic]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [30 June 1789]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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., and Mounted on leaf 55 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: Pub. June 30, 1789, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):: Horse racing, Horseback riding, and Carriages & coaches
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The high mettled racer [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 musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description:: Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue., Title from text above image., and "No. 5".
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 popular castrato, Farinelli), a fencing master, a prizefighter with quarter-staffs (said to be James Figg), a dancing master, a landscape-gardener (said to be Charles Bridgeman), a bodyguard, a huntsman and a jockey
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., Added title from first lines of caption below image., Sheet trimmed to image with caption from 4th state pasted on., and 'Plate 2d'--Lower right below image.
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 race, two jockeys nearing the winning post (right). A large Chinese jar stands on the floor filled with flowers."--British Museum online catalogue and "An early allusion to Eliza Chester, b. 1799, a pretty actress who fascinated the King and according to Huish was appointed Reader to him at £600 p.a."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: R- method of colt-breaking, Royal method of colt-breaking, and A la Chester-field
Description:: Title etched below image., Text above image: A la Chester-field., Tentative attribution to William Heath from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of dialogue etched below title: Man, Delightfull [sic] task to rear the tender thought to teach the young idea how to shoot, to pour the fresh Instruction on the mind, to breath [sic] the enlivening spirit, & thus to aid the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Woman, Indeed, indeed, the temptation is so great, the prospect so flattering tis my ambition, not my will consents., Text at bottom of plate: Plate 1st a series of these subjects will be continued to exhibit the force of example above precept, & to shew the principles of morality emonates [sic] from Great Qui Capet Ille habet., Watermark: G. Pike 1820., Window mounted to 34.3 x 23.9 cm, the whole then mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 66 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Miss Chester" and "Geo. IV" identified in ink below image; date "22 Ap. 1821" written in lower right corner. Typed extract of two lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
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 nearer the spectator, is Mainwaring, holding up a sword whose blade is inscribed 'Justice'. His horse's human head is blindfolded, in its mouth is a pair of scales; in one balance is 'Byng Dunston', in the other and heavier, 'Wilkes Manwaring'. The horse probably represents Justice, its rider was a well-known Middlesex Justice and chairman of the Middlesex Sessions. Behind Wilkes, his horse's head hidden, is a rider not identified, he has lost his stirrups and clutches his saddle with both hands. Behind these three and in the centre of the design is George Byng, the friend of Fox and the Prince of Wales, M.P. for Middlesex since 1780. He rides a pair of horses (representing the Coalition), standing with one foot on the saddle of each; the near horse has the head of Fox, the other that of North; the tail of the near horse is a fox's brush inscribed 'Grace'. The fore legs of the pair touch a paper inscribed 'Test'. Byng's whip is inscribed 'Coalition' and he is saying, "Spur them up behind Doctor, or I shall lose the race", addressing Hall, the Westminster apothecary, who rides like a hobby horse a pair of crutches tied with a ribbon; in place of a hat he wears a mortar inscribed 'All [sic] Blue and Buff'; he holds up his pestle as if it were a whip. Behind Byng, Jeffery Dunstan rides an ass with long ears and the head of Sam House; he looks round to address the Duchess of Devonshire who is the last of the cavalcade. The Duchess (right) rides astride, her bunched-up skirt showing spurred half-boots. Her horse has the head of the Earl of Surrey; she says, "Byng for ever - and may the Hearty Cock ever stand stout in our sarvice". Dunstan says, "Well said my Dutchess - Charly's Whipper-in for ever. Huzza". The Duchess wears a heavily trimmed hat in which is a large election favour and four fox's tails, each inscribed 'Byng'. On the extreme left is a sign-post pointing 'To Brentford'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 27 x 36 cm.
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 and an eye-glass with studied negligence, his left hand in his trouser pocket. Beside him is a lady, turning in her saddle to look through an eye-glass; a long green veil streams from her bell-shaped top-hat. A horse falls on its head, the falling man is taking snuff. Two dogs fight in the foreground. There are heavy clouds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Published Aug. 1st, 1821 by Thomas McLean, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):: Horse racing, Horseback riding, and Horses
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dissatisfied [graphic]