A horse named 'Bessy Bedlam' (after John Frederick Herring the elder)
Henry Pyall (1795-1833)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1828
Materials
paper
Measurements
415 x 520 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286156
Summary
Print, coloured aquatint, A horse named 'Bessy Bedlam' (after John Frederick Herring the elder) by Henry Pyall (1795-1833). 'Bessy Bedlam', a mounted brown horse, with black feet, facing left, standing in a landscape with a fence behind. By H. Pyall after J.F. Herring. The print inscribed; 'To Colonel Nevill King of Ashby House in the County of Lincoln, a most movable and distinguished supporter of the turf and a truly splendid specimen of the old English Gentlemen. This print is most respectfully inscribed by his obliged and most obedient servant Rees Davies'. Published by Moon, Boys (and) Graves and Rees Davies, London 1828.
Marks and inscriptions
BESSY BEDLAM/To Colonel Nevill King of Ashby House in the county of Lincoln, a most movable and/distinguished supporter of the turf and a truly splendid specimen of the old English Gentlemen/This print is most respectfully inscribed by his oliged and most obedient servant/Rees Davies...Moon, Boys + Graves and Rees Davies publisher (printed under image)
Makers and roles
Henry Pyall (1795-1833), engraver (printmaker) after John Frederick Herring the elder (Surrey 1795 – Meopham, Kent 1865), artist Moon, Boys and Graves and Rees Davies, engraver and publisher