3-086-022 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at the House of Commons and Brigade of Guards Point-to-Point Races, Bourton Estate, Buckingham, March 26, 1898. '"The Dismall'st Day is this that e'er I saw" (Titus Andronicus, I, 3); "This is a sorry sight", (Macbeth, II, 2); "Wot's the 'orse a-stamping for, Mikey?" Mikey: "I dunno - pr'aps 'e's got chilblains"; The First Fence; Mr. J. W. Phillip's M.P. 'Oliver' ridden by Mr. Pease, wins the House of Commons Race; "Had I but seen thy picture in this plight it would have madded me" (Titus Andronicus, III, I); "Good Sir, why do you start & seem to fear things", (Macbeth, I, 3); Ease not Elegance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.