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1941-111, Print
Portraiture of VICTORIOUS the Property of the Rt Honble the Lord Onslow
1941-111, Print

Portraiture of VICTORIOUS the Property of the Rt Honble the Lord Onslow

Dateca. 1770
Engraver Henry Roberts (active 1730 - 1790)
After work by James Roberts (ca. 1725 - 1799)
Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)
OriginEngland, London
MediumLine engraving and etching with hand color
DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 × 16 1/2in. (30.2 × 41.9cm) Other (Plate): 7 × 10 7/8in. (17.8 × 27.6cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1941-111
DescriptionUpper right corner reads: "7"
Lower margin reads: "H. Roberts Sculp./ The Portraiture of VICTORIOUS the Property of the R.t Hon.ble the Lord Onslow.- Taken from the Life./ This Horse Won Nine £ 50 Prizes, at Epsom, Winchester, Salisbury, Blanford, Marlborough, Tetbury, Oxford and Burford./ Printed for Rob.t Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street."
Label TextThis portrait of the horse Victorious who was owned by Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (1713-1776), was foaled in 1747 and was a successful racehorse between 1751 to 1755. 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. 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.