Late 19th Century Political Print William Gladstone as Lord Rosebery's Jockey on Horse Verbosity

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British Historic Victorian 19th Century Rare Political Sporting Framed Print By Punch Cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne Portraying William Gladstone As … Read more British Historic Victorian 19th Century Rare Political Sporting Framed Print By Punch Cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne Portraying William Gladstone As Lord Rosebery's Jockey Horse Verbosity.
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Subject political sporting satire depicting William Gladstone as Lord Rosebery's Jockey on the racehorse Verbosity.
Title "William Gladstone as Lord Rosebery's jockey riding a horse called Verbosity".
With printed inscription exchanged comments Lord R What have you got here, Adam? Adam Verbosity my Lord, Lord R Verbosity Why, he's a rank roarer, we can't win with him. Adam Very sorry, my Lord. We can't win with any horse you've got. Foreign Policy is very lame. Disestablishment can't be trusted and Tynecastle is underage. Bill here thinks Verbosity will carry him anywhere.
Medium print on paper laid on board with a front protective glass cover & set in a tiger oak traditional frame.
Circa 1880 Victorian era.
Biography of Edward Linley Sambourne (4 January 1844 – 3 August 1910) was an English cartoonist and illustrator most famous for being a draughtsman for the satirical magazine Punch for more than forty years and rising to the position of "First Cartoonist" in his final decade.
Edward Linley Sambourne was born in the family home at 15 Lloyd Square in Pentonville, London 4 January 1844. He was the only surviving child of Edward Mott Sambourne, a furrier merchant in the City of London. His mother Frances Linley was the daughter of Peter Linley, who followed into the family business of scythe manufacture near Sheffield.
Linley was educated at various schools throughout England. Aged 10 or 11 he enrolled as a pupil in the City of London School, but by 1857 he was at a school in Sheffield. From late 1857 to 1860 he had again enrolled in a new school, the Chester Training College, where he was encouraged to pursue his talent for drawing. In 1860, aged 16, Linley enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art but stayed only a couple of months.
In 1861 Sambourne was apprenticed to John Penn and Sons, marine engineers of Greenwich.[1] Initially he worked under the founder's son, John Penn Jr, but was moved to the drawing office when his employer discovered his aptitude for draft drawing. In his spare time Sambourne continued to draw caricatures and study the great graphic artists such as William Hogarth and Albrecht Dürer.
Unusually for an artist working in black and white, Sambourne used a huge library of photographic images to give accuracy to his work, which was characterized by a vivid and decisive linearity as well as an artistic inventiveness that took his images far beyond the simple concept of a cartoon or "comic cut". The quality of his work for Punch was acknowledged by the Royal Academy, which exhibited his drawings over a 20-year period.
Biography of the horse owner Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny. As a result of his marriage to Hannah de Rothschild, Rosebery acquired the Mentmore Towers estate and Mentmore Stud near Leighton Buzzard which had been built by Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. Rosebery built another stable and stud near Mentmore Towers at Crafton, Buckinghamshire, called Crafton Stud. Rosebery won several of the five English Classic Races. His most famous horses were Ladas who won the 1894 Derby, Sir Visto who won it in 1895 (Rosebery was Prime Minister on both occasions), and Cicero in 1905.
Provenance The late Richard “Dickie” Onslow, horse racing journalist, author and historian. Southern shire high end racing history auction & in the collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
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Dimensions in centimetres of frame

High (45 cm)
Depth (2 cm)
Wide (58.5 cm) See less