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Bolingbroke's Ting, 3 ; Mr. Shafto's Askam, 4. 

 The size of this canvas is 6 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 

 I inch. The picture was for many years in the 

 possession of the late Mr. Richard Tattersall, and in 

 1884 it was purchased for the Elsenham Collection. 



Francis Sartorius was an occasional contributor 

 to the Sporting Magazine ; the volumes 2, 4, and 6, 

 for the years 1793, 1794, and 1795, respectively, 

 contain four excellent engravings from his works ; 

 one plate by Thomas Cook of the celebrated race- 

 horse Waxey by Pot-8-os, the property of Sir 

 F. Poole, Bart., shows the horse standing with 

 the groom at his head ; and another in the same 

 volume engraved by J. Walker from the por- 

 trait of Dragon, a horse bred by the Duke of 

 Bedford. The other enorravinofs are from the 

 artist's " Staa Chase throusfh the Thames" and 

 the portrait of Mr. Bishop's trotting mare, to 

 which reference has been made. 



To the various London Galleries he contributed 

 some thirty-eight works altogether : twelve to the 

 Royal Academy exhibitions between 1775 and 

 1 790 ; seven to the Society of Artists and twenty 

 to the Free Society of Artists between 1773 and 

 1 79 1. His addresses in London during the years 

 he was exhibiting are given as : 10, Meads Court, 

 Dean Street, Soho ; i, Macclesfield Street; and 



17, Gerrard Street, Soho. 



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