Search Results: Items taken from Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856) (results page 1)

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One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days.Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the upper class, and hence portrayed as a lit [...]

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour

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Added: 2011-07-03

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W with two horses and ridersMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A decorative initial letter “W” with the W made from four fence-posts or tree-trunks, and with two men wearing hats, each riding a horse about to pass through one or other half of the letter. This ill [...]

Keywords: letterw, initials, horses, animals, people, riding, hunting, greyscale

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Added: 2011-07-03

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A Day With Puffington’s HoundsMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A happy hunter beams as he holds up a dead rabbit. The rabbit doesn’t look happy. Men in red coats, white trousers and riding hats, horses, dogs.

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2011-07-03

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Initial letter T with upturned book and horse-rider on quill penMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

In this vignetted decorative initial a man wears a top hat and rides a “horse” made from a quill (feather) pen towards an upturned book, laying with the pages partly open and the spine uppermost as if [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, horses, riding, sport, books, vignetted initials, historiated initials, inhabited initials, greyscale

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Added: 2014-05-04

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Letter T with BookMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

An initial letter T with a book, pages open, spine upwards, as if just set down by a careless reader.

The original version of this decorative initial included a jockey riding a horse.

Keywords: initials, lettert, books, vignetted initials, greyscale

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Added: 2014-05-04

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