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1. 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-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner., No. 44 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering., and 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 25.2, on sheet 38.6 x 27.1 cm.
- 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].
2. A deep one and a knowing one [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 25 April 1791.
- Call Number:
- 791.04.25.01 Impression 1
- 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-crowned hat and a long coat with many capes, he holds a riding-whip and a 'List of the Horses' printed in three columns and headed by a print of horses leaving the starting-post. The other wears a cocked hat, powdered hair or wig, and holds a 'Betting Book' and pencil-case in his right hand. Both wear spurred top-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate numbered '607' in lower left corner.
- 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].
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. The coterie & Newmarket macaroni [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.05.01.13 Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a man with long tail of hair riding on horseback holding a stick."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Coterie and Newmarket macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Newmarket race course.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 1s [sic], 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Race horses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coterie & Newmarket macaroni [graphic]
5. The coterie & Newmarket macaroni [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire: a man with long tail of hair riding on horseback holding a stick."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Coterie and Newmarket macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Newmarket race course., Second of two plates on leaf 39., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 1s [sic], 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Race horses, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The coterie & Newmarket macaroni [graphic]
6. The eclipse macarony [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.05.12.01.1 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Eclipse macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., Variant state without numbering. Cf. No. 4643 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Racing horses: 'Eclipse' -- Betting post -- Nosegays -- Male dress: Great-coat., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 12, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- O'Kelly, Dennis, approximately 1720-1787
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Race horses, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The eclipse macarony [graphic]
7. The eclipse macarony [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [12 May 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 39. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Dennis O'Kelly dressed as a macaroni in profile mounted on his race-horse, Eclipse, by 'The Betting Post'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Eclipse macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched at bottom of image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Hats: Tricorne -- Racing horses: 'Eclipse' -- Posts: The Betting Post -- Tasselled canes -- Racecourses -- Nosegays -- Male dress: Great-coat., and First of two plates on leaf 39.
- Publisher:
- Pub. May 12, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- O'Kelly, Dennis, approximately 1720-1787
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Race horses, and Signs (Notices)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The eclipse macarony [graphic]
8. The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course
- Published / Created:
- [Mar. 3, 1795 - May 1795]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Pleasures of the course
- Description:
- "Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25.", Text and cut within printer's flowers frame., In this edition line 35 of col. 2 includes: "health and money lost!", and the footnote has the spelling: "Lansdown"., The woodcut shows two riders with a leafy branch overhead; this has a bare twig protruding., LWL copy imperfect: bottom portion of sheet including price and imprint wanting. Sheet trimmed within border., Mounted on leaf 57. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath : By J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard : R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers
- Subject (Topic):
- Horse racing and Race horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course
