Portraiture of Sr. Marmaduke Wyvill's Brown Horse ANTELOPE

Dateca. 1770

Engraver Henry Roberts (active 1730 - 1790)

After work by James Roberts (ca. 1725 - 1799)

Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

OriginEngland, London

MediumHand-colored line engraving

DimensionsOther (Plate): 7 × 10 7/8in. (17.8 × 27.6cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1941-117

DescriptionUpper right corner: "6"
Lower margin reads: "Jam.s Roberts Del./ H. Roberts Sculp/ The Portraiture of S.r Marmaduke Wyvill's Brown Horse ANTELOPE- Taken from the Life./ He won the 7 following Plates and Purses 3 of One 100 Guineas at York, Lincoln & Newmarket, 2 of 90 at Huntington,/ 2 of 50 at New-Malton, and Bedford./ Printed for Rob.t Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street."
Label TextThis portrait of the horse Antelope was foaled in 1748 by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill in Yorkshire and became a successful racehorse in the early-1750s. In the 1750s, engravers, printsellers, and publishers James and Henry Roberts published a series of prints depicting famous racehorses. This print is from a second series based on their work published by Robert Sayer. James Roberts worked with Sayer on various projects after 1766. This series of ten prints entitled "A Collection of the most famous and high bred Running Horses" is listed in Sayer's 1774 catalogue for 1s 6d for the set. The work of the Roberts' continued to be published for the next several decades by Robert Sayer, though the horses they represented were mostly foaled in the 1740s.