3-066-060 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at Sandown Park Races, 1881. Race meeting near Esher. '1 and 2. Heads of the People; 3. Carriage Folk; 4,5,6, and 7. Hats and Faces; 8. The Betting-Ring; 9. "The world forgetting, by the world forgot"; 10. Going home...Our Artist, in one of his Sketches, has depicted the unprepossessing physiognomy of a certain class, who cannot be kept out even from this aristocratic and fashionable resort. His Sketches also of some "Heads of the People," and that of a gentleman who has forgotten himself, as well as the world about him, amidst the emptied champagne-bottles, will attest the mixed quality of the assemblage of spectators upon this occasion. It is a relief and an honest pleasure to turn away from such figures, and to admire the sweet "faces," beneath such "hats" as are now in vogue, that ornament the lower right-hand corner. There is, no doubt, a fair opportunity to enjoy the morning discreetly in the society of those agreeable parties of "carriage folk," whose vehicles are seen drawn up above. The men upon the four-horse drag that is observed "going home," at the end of the day's racing, are probably either losers or winners of a few hundreds, and are not much to be envied in either case'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.