“A Hero of The Turf & His Agent" Regency Horseracing Turf Caricatures by Robert Dighton (1752-1814) Sir Alfred Munnings

“A Hero of The Turf & His Agent" Regency Horseracing Turf Caricatures by Robert Dighton (1752-1814) Sir Alfred MunningsPrint Sz: 11"H x 7 1 2"W Frame Sz: 13"H x 9 3 8"W Robert Dighton (1752 1814) A HERO of the TURF & his AGENT" 1806 (being portraits of the jockey Frank Buckle and the racehorse owner Harry Mellish) Lettered with the title and the publication line: "Drawn Etch'd & Pubd by Dighton. Charg Cross. 1806." Etching with contemporary hand colouring A contemporary manuscript inscription in red ink beneath the title (lower right) identifying the subjects as

*dampstaining condition to jacket*

Includes a foreword by Ogden Nash

and Wavy Gravy

an eclectic evolution of broad experience

exclusive tailoring shop on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia

Original gouache by the noted English illustrator

belongs with perhaps three or four other works in English at the pinnacle of literary craftsmanship in this century

The Black Moth (1921) is a Georgian era romance novel by the British author Georgette Heyer

study or grand gallery-- and traces the solutions he originated to create them

Editorial Universitaria De Buenos Aires

photographer and antique collector

” a nine-foot-long painting from 1978 that showcases many of the themes of Lichtenstein’s rich Surrealist period