Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Frank Buckle, John Wastell, Robert Robson and a Stable-lad
Benjamin Marshall, 1802 · oil on canvas
What it is
Four men of one racing stable stand together: the jockey Frank Buckle, the owner-breeder John Wastell, his trainer Robert Robson and a stable-lad, in Benjamin Marshall’s oil of 1802.
Why it matters
Buckle, called “The Governor”, won at least 27 British Classic races, a record that stood for more than 150 years.
What to notice
Buckle holds his saddle under his arm, and the coats tell the ranks apart: the jockey’s scarlet, the owner’s greatcoat, the lad’s plain jacket.
Every win has four names.
Provenance
- Maker
- Benjamin Marshall, 1802
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1802
- Figure
- Frank Buckle
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Publicity
Clear — the historic British turf (the Victorian jockeys, the Vanity Fair subjects): a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-100-1923|deathyear=1835. The maker died in 1835.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
More from the Stable Wall
Steeplechasing — The Start
‘Elis’, Winner of the St Leger, 1836
Fores’s National Sports — The Run In
The Trotting Mare Nancy Hanks
Elsewhere in the family
- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.