[Doncaster, Great St. Leger race, & characters on the turf] [graphic].

Creator:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, printmaker.

Edition:

[Proof before lettering].

Published/Created:

[London] :
[Sherwood & Co.],
[1826]

Physical Description:

1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper ; plate mark 15.6 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 23.3 x 30.3 cm

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Notes:

Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state.
Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
For published state see: No. 15224 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.

Abstract:

Men, with one or two women. stand against the rails in the foreground. On the opposite side of the course is a palatial stand or club-house, its balconies and roof crowded with spectators; in front of it are carriages and spectators. Portraits seem to include the Duke of York in a frogged blue coat and white trousers and Lord Petersham on horseback. There are also fruit-sellers, and a gaming-board. British Museum catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Doncaster, Great St. Leger race, and characters on the turf

Topics:

Clubhouses.
Crowds.
Food vendors.
Gameboards.
Grandstands.
Racetracks.
Sports spectators.

Topics:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist.
Sherwood, Jones, and Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1826.
Proofs before letters.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1826.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

75
C9
824
Folio 75 C9 824 no. 21

Orbis Record:

12878456

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr34260

OID:

15959194

PID:

digcoll:2795765