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    • Author/Creator:Gooch, Thomas, 1750-1802.
    • Title:The life and death of a race-horse : Exemplified in his various stages of existence, till his dissolution. I. When a foal with his dam. II. When a colt breaking. III. After running a race and winning a considerable sweepstakes. IV. As a hunter going out to the chace. V. As a post-chaise horse on the road. VI. His dissolution / The whole drawn and engraved in aquatinta, by Thomas Gooch, Esq.; with an essay tending to excite a benevolent conduct towards the brute creation, by the late Dr. Hawksworth. To which is now added the song of the race horse, &c.
    • Published/Created:London : Printed for Edward Jeffery, in Pall-Mall, 1792.
    • Physical Description:4 p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. ; 49 cm.
    • Links:View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: Folio A 2007 9
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in 20th century gilt-tooled red morocco, by Hatchards of London. Armorial bookplate with inscription "Ex libris Harry Twyford Peters" and motto "Veritas" on inside of upper board.
    • Notes:The plates are aquatints printed in sepia with etched titles. All bear imprint "Pubd. July 30, 1790 from Original Designs by T. Gooch, No. 4 Half Moon Street".
      Not recorded by ESTC.
      Caption title at head of p. 3 reads: Happiness properly estimated: or, Remarkable instances of cruelty to brutes.
      At foot of t.p.: Price 15s. in boards.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 69
      Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p. 81.
    • Subjects:Race horses--Pictorial works.
      Race horses--Early works to 1800.
      Horses--Pictorial works.
      Horses--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1792.
      Etching--Specimens--1792.
      Jeffery, Edward--Publisher.
      Peters, Harry Twyford, 1881-1948--Bookplate.
      Hatchards (Firm)--Binder.
    • Genre/Form:Aquatints--1792.
    • Also listed under:Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7835712