BENJAMIN MARSHALL 9 1 



Treacher's hunter Duncombe ; Roan Billy, a 

 hackney, the property of a gentleman ; The 

 Charger, a horse belonging to General Warde ; 

 Mr. Henry Villebois' coach-horse David, and a 

 cart-horse Dumpling, owned by Messrs. Home and 

 Devey. 



The volumes of the SportingMagazine from 1 796 

 to 1826 contain no fewer than sixty engravings 

 from pictures by Benjamin Marshall. Those oc- 

 curring in the volumes prior to the year 1822 were, 

 as we have already seen, almost without exception 

 the work of John Scott. Subsequently J. Webb, 

 R. Woodman, J. Romney, and other capable 

 engravers executed the plates. The reservation 

 applies to three etchings from sketches of the 

 Newmarket turf officials, namely, Mr. John Hilton, 

 Judge of the Course ; Mr. Samuel Betts, 

 Starter of the Horses, and Mr. John Fuller 

 (on horseback), the official known then, as now, 

 as Clerk of the Course. The name of the etcher 

 is not given on these plates. 



Two of Benjamin Marshall's portraits claim 



attention not less by reason of the fame of the 



setters than their artistic merits. One of these is 



The Sportsman, standing gun in hand by a stile 



with a pointer and setter beside him. A tablet 



attached informs us that 



" The portrait is that of Thomas Gosden, the celebrated 

 sporting bookbinder of St. Martin's Lane, and afterwards of 



