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horseback, with keepers, and eleven young pointers 

 all standing to game ; a view of Thoresby Hall, 

 Lincolnshire, forming the remote background. The 

 work bears date 1725. In the Elsenham collection 

 there is an engraving by Pritchard from this 

 picture ; the plate measures 1 7 inches by 1 1 inches, 

 and it bears the quaint inscription, "His Grace, and 

 attendants going a-setting." 



The excellent plates engraved by Js. Sympson 

 and Jn. Lloyds, from a set of three pictures descrip- 

 tive of " Newmarket Horse Races," enable us to 

 measure Tilleman's talent as a horse painter. 

 Equine anatomy had not yet been mastered — had 

 been hardly approached seriously — by artists when 

 these pictures were painted, but the "different 

 actions and postures," to quote from the inscription 

 on the first of the series, are rendered with a skill 

 that shows no inconsiderable advance in the art of 

 horse portraiture. The pictures are: (i) A View 

 of the Round Course with divers Jockeys and 

 Horses in Different Actions and Postures, going to 

 the Start for the King's Plate at Newmarket ; (2) 

 A View of a Horse Match over the Long Course 

 from the Starting Post to the Stand at Newmarket. 

 Each of these plates measures i6 inches by 11 

 inches ; (3) A View of Noblemen's and Gentle- 

 men's Several Strings or Trains of Running Horses 

 taking their Exercise up the Watering Course on 

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