Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Mully Moloch
Benjamin Marshall, 1803 · oil on canvas
What it is
The chestnut Mully Moloch stands by a stable while a lad holds his head and three gentlemen talk beside him; Benjamin Marshall signed and dated it in 1803.
Why it matters
Marshall painted the business of racing as well as the horse: the owners, the men who ran the stable, the saddle on the ground.
What to notice
The saddle and cloth lie in the grass at the right, and the horse leans forward into the lad’s hand.
Business at the stable door.
Provenance
- Maker
- Benjamin Marshall, 1803
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1803
- Horse
- Mully Moloch
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
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 27x41" 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.