"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
"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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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