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Thoroughbred Portraits: Album of 9 Equestrian Portraits by Stainforth and others
1948261135New York: privately printed at the Derrydale Press etc. 1948. Privately printed in editions of very limited quantities. 8 aquatint engravings hand colored and 1 color print. Image size 12-3/4 x 17-1/2 on larger sheet. Large oblong folio 23 x 36-1/2 inches. Half red morocco gilt red morocco label on upper cover printed title leaf each print window matted in heavy card mount by Aquarius. Fine. Privately printed in editions of very limited quantities. 8 aquatint engravings hand colored and 1 color print. Image size 12-3/4 x 17-1/2 on larger sheet. Large oblong folio 23 x 36-1/2 inches. William Woodward's Winners' Circle. Superb presentation of a distinguished group of thoroughbred portraits by Martin Stainforth T.P. Earl and Edwin Megargee comprising:<br/>1. Faireno. Bay Colt 1929 by Chatterton-Minerva; Winner of the Victoria Stakes Junior Champion Belmont Stakes Shevlin Dwyer Lawrence Realization Saratoga Hawthorne Empire City Merchant's & Citizens Rochambeau and Havre de Grace Handicaps. Champion 3 - year old of 1932. Winner of $185140 in stakes and purses. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To William G. Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>2. Brown Betty. by Friar Marcus-Garpal 1930; Winner of the 1000 Guineas 1933. Richemount Stakes Hurst Park 1933 The Rous Memorial & Cheverly Park Stakes Newmarket 1932 Nottingham Breeders' Foal Stakes Champion Breeders' Foal Plate Derby 1932 Total winnings 11637 Pounds Sterling. Ridden by Joe Childs. The Property of William Woodward Esquire. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort. Color print signed in the plate by the artist and pencil signed by the artist "T.P. Earl" lower right. Inscribed in pencil: "To Wm Goodby Loew from William Woodward" This print not noted by Ordeman.<br/><br/>3. Omaha. Chesnut Colt 1932 by Gallant Fox-Flambino; Winner of the Kentucky Derby Preakness Belmont Dwyer Classic and other races; Champion 3 - year-old of 1935. Winner of $146105 to the end of his 3 - year-old year. Jockey W. Saunders up. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To Florence B. Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>4. Granville. Bay Colt 1933 by Gallant Fox-Gravita; Winner of the Belmont Classic Kenner Travers Lawrence Realization Stakes The Saratoga Cup and other races; Champion Horse of 1936. Winner of $111820. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Ridden by J. Stout. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To W. Goodby Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>5. Johnstown. Bay Colt 1936 by Jamestown-La France; Winner of the Belmont Kentucky Derby Withers Dwyer Wood Memorial Paumonok Breeders Futurity and seven other races and $169315. Owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. Inscribed in pencil: "To W. Goodly Loew from William Woodward"<br/><br/>6. Marguerite . Property of William Woodward Esquire" a fine portrait of the "premier producing mare of the world". Hand colored aquatint signed in pencil "Edwin Megargee" at lower right. Provenance: from the collection of Eugene V. Connett 3rd with a greeting card "Merry Christmas William Woodward"<br/><br/>7. Fenelon. Bay Horse 1937 by Sir Galahad III-Filante; Winner of Travers Stakes Lawrence Realization Jockey Club Gold Cup Whitney Stakes Brooklyn Empire City New York Merchant's & Citizens Manhattan Endurance Handicaps and other races and $152545. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. <br/><br/>8. Apache. Bay Colt 1939 by Alcazar-Flying Song; Winner of 22 races and $169515 including the Toboggan Paumonck Carter Wilson Fleetwing Bay Shore Edgemere Yonkers Empire City and Remsen Handicaps and Stakes establishing five track records from five and one half furlongs to one mile and three sixteenths. Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. James Stout up. Trained by James E. Fitzsimmons. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate by Stainforth. <br/><br/> 9. Black Tarquin at 3. Bay Colt 1945 by Rhodes Scholar-Vagrancy; Winner of the St. Leger Stakes 1948 and of the Gimcrack Royal Lodge Derby Trial St James Palace Chippenham Burwell and White Rose Stakes; and of 32192 Pounds Sterling Bred and owned by William Woodward Esquire. Edgar Britt up. Trained by Capt. Cecil Boyd Rochfort. Hand colored aquatint signed in the plate Stainforth. <br/><br/>A choice group of the sporting prints commissioned by William Woodward owner of the Belair Stables.<br/>"Brown Betty" by T.P. Earl 1874-1947 is previously unrecorded and never seen by Ordeman whose 2005 book collected prior knowledge on the prints. One other print by British artist T.P. Earl Flares is noted by Ordeman date unknown but in personal communication he reports that his information comes at second hand. and has never seen "Brown Betty". The print is however in the collection of the Belair Mansion Museum established after Woodward's death at his Maryland residence. Brown Betty won the 1933 1000 Guineas race and the painting by T.P. Earl that Woodward commissioned is dated 1933 in the plate. The paper and production of this color print differ from the aquatint horse portraits commissioned from Connett and Frank Lowe. Given the date of the portrait we conjecture that Woodward commissioned the print in London and thus it may predate and be the point of origin for the series of prints commissioned from Connett. In recent conversation Ordeman advanced a similar hypothesis.<br/>The Megargee print "Marguerite" with her colt Gallant Fox is from the collection of Derrydale Press publisher Eugene V. Connett 3rd.<br/>Rare and important. Ordeman 2005 pp. 96-98; Mitchell British Equestrian Artists: "Stainforth's detail and accuracy in likeness were very fine and very natural. He avoided the pitfalls of flatness and photographic stiffness so often found in this type of work." Provenance: descendant of the Loew family see note at "Marguerite" privately printed at the Derrydale Press, etc. unknown books
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