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Yearling Sale at Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Image credit: Heritage Doncaster

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One of the most impressive pictures in the collection of Doncaster Museum Service, and certainly the most heavily populated, is this painting of a horse sale by Myles Birket Foster and Lowes Cato Dickinson. Painted in 1885, the picture shows a view of the Tattersall Sales Ring, which was situated on land near the site later occupied by Doncaster College in the Waterdale area of Doncaster. Surrounding the sales ring is a crowd of the great and good of the racing world, fashionably dressed and ready to bid for the horses. Containing portraits of 149 people, the picture is what is known as a ‘subscription painting’. This means that everyone included in the painting had paid to be depicted. The more money they paid, the more prominent their position in the painting! The picture is a real who’s who of everyone of importance associated with racing at that time.

Danum Gallery, Library and Museum

Doncaster

Title

Yearling Sale at Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Date

c.1885

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 256 cm

Accession number

DONMG : 656.75

Acquisition method

transferred from Doncaster Mansion House, 1975

Work type

Painting

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Danum Gallery, Library and Museum

Waterdale, Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN1 3BZ England

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