Editorial'Sporting Notions': 'I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound', Henry Thomas Alken, 17851851, British, between 1831 and 1832, Graphite with red chalk on thin, smooth, blued white, wove paper, Sheet: 6 9/16 ? 8 3/8 inches (16.7 ?...
EditorialA sailor cheated out of his share of the prize money by his navy. Unable to pay six guineas, Jack Tar dies of grief in the lobspound (prison). Copperplate engraving by Thomas Sanders after a satirical illustration by Timothy Bobbin (John Collier) from ...
EditorialExtraordinary exploit'. 'On Tuesday the 17th of January 1826, Mr Henry Hunt Junior for a bet of 100 guineas ... drove his father's Matchless Blacking Van, with four blood horses, upon the ice over the Serpentine at the broadest part... The plate repres...