Washington Winter Show 2013

47 This page is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Baldwin, Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Gregory May Fig. 15: Meadow Farm silks, c. 1940s, colors of 2013 Honorary Washington Winter Show Chair Penny Chenery’s Triple Crown- winner Secretariat. On loan from Washington & Lee University. Image courtesy of Washington & Lee University. newly renovated and expanded historic building on the Library campus, houses exhibits of American and European fine animal and sporting art. Information is shared through exhibitions, lectures, seminars, publications and special events. The NSLM is open to researchers and the general public. Admission is free. Library Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Museum Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.nsl.org or call 540-687-6542. NSLM 102 The Plains Road, Middleburg, VA 20117 1. Thomas Westwood and Thomas Satchell, A Chronicle of the Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton (London, 1883) 64. 2. James Wilson, F.R.S.E. “The Rod and the Gun,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (London, 1840, no. lxxx, vol. vii) 487. 3. Wilson, “The Rod and the Gun,” 487. 4. Wilson, “The Rod and the Gun,” 488. 5. Robert Charles Tombs, The King’s Post: Being a Volume of Historical Facts Relating to the Posts, Mail Coaches, Coach Roads, and Railway Mail Services of and Connected with the Ancient City of Bristol from 1580 to the Present (Bristol, 1905) 90. 6. William Patten (ed.) and Oliver Belmont, “Coaching.” The Book of Sport, Volume l , (New York, 1903) 219. 7. Charles Eyer Pascoe. London of To-day: An Illustrated Handbook of the Season (London, 1885) 126. 8. Anthony Vandervell and Charles Coles, Game and the English Landscape: The Influence of the Chase of Sporting Art and Scenery (London, 1980) 96. 9. “Melton” refers to Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicester, England, immortalized by the sporting artist John Ferneley, Sr. as a bastion of foxhunting. 10. “Steeplechasing,” Baily’s Magazine of Sports & Pastimes (London, 1886, vol. 45) 30–31. 11. George Augustus Frederick, The London Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. (London, 18 August , 1832, vol. 16, no. 813) 516. 12. Vandervell and Coles, Game and the English Landscape , 83. 13. John Blunt Freeman, Fashion and Other Poems (London, 1825) 10. 14. Edward L. Bowen, Legacies of the Turf, Vol. 2: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders. (Lexington, KY, 2004) 147. 15. Frederick, The London Literary Gazette , 516. Fig. 13: Franklin Brooke Voss (American, 1880-1953), Alligator, Winner of the 1929 Maryland Hunt Cup and the 1930 International Gold Cup, 1929. Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches. Gift of the Family of Peter Winants. Fig. 14: English jockey scales with ruler and original set of 224 pound/8 stone weights , c. 1790. Brass, mahogany, and copper, 45½ x 13 x 21½ inches. Gift of Mrs. Paul Mellon.