"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
"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
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
"Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25."
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
