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The Chaise Match, Run on New-market Heath on Wednesday the 29 of August, 1750,

The Chaise Match, Run on New-market Heath on Wednesday the 29 of August, 1750,from an Original Drawing by Mr Seymour.

London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer No 53, Fleet Street. [originally c.1770., but watermarked 'W. King Alton Mills 1854'.]
Engraving. 350 x 470mm (13¾ x 18½"), very large margins. Top margins tatty.
A record of a 1000-guinea wager: William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensbury, claimed he could get a carriage 'with four running wheels, and a person in, or upon it, drawn by four horses' to travel nineteen miles in one hour. Backed by Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, the wager was accepted by Theobald Taaffe (described by Horace Walpole as 'a gamester, usurer, adventurer') and Andrew Sprowle. The carriage, specially made by a Mr. Wright of Long Acre, managed to complete the 19 miles around Newmarket Heath in 53 minutes, 27 seconds.
Siltzer 248.
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