FDA-E.2029-2015
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.2029-2015
Object type
Identification
Title
'horses'
Title Type
assigned by artist
Comments
Statesmen. - No. DXLII.
The Viscount Combermere.
'Through the centuries the Stapylton-Cotton family have been ever ready soldiers; but the military fame of the father of the present Peer eclipsed that of all his predecessors, for, as a Cavalry leader in the wars against Buonaparte, the late Lord Anglesey and Sir Hussey Vivian were the only English commanders whose reputation compared with that of ‘Long Cotton’.
Being made a Baron at the peace, he was sent to India as Commander-in-Chief, took Bhurtpore, and thereby established a renown which few officers of horse had won since Peterborough captured Barcelona with Dragoons. A Colonelcy of a Life Guards regiment, a step in the Peerage, and a Field-Marshal’s baton rewarded him; and, dying full of years and honour, he was succeeded by the present Peer, born seventy years ago his father’s second wife of three. He, too, served in the 1st Life Guards, but his fame has been won rather in the hunting than in the tented field. As a sportsman he has achieved a great success, and in his subaltern period he won steeple-chases. As a country gentleman of business capacity, he divided honours with his close friend, the late Sir Watkin Wynn, and like him, was a Parliament man too, having represented Ulster borough for twelve years. But Ireland remembers him for his supreme judgement in horseflesh rather than for his legislative labours. In the Irish horse fairs he is better known than in St. James’s Street, and in the most famous of the horse-dealing counties, Lord Coventry and Lord Combermere are the only Sassenachs thought fit to judge Irish hunters at the great annual Horse Show. The enjoyment of all sports comes naturally to him; and, being sufficiently rich, he passes a pleasant life, and he is as hearty, acute, and hospitable a type of Englishman as the Peerage possesses. His now elderly children follow in his leanings. Cheshire loves him. He smokes the largest known cigars.'
Jehu Junior.
The Viscount Combermere.
'Through the centuries the Stapylton-Cotton family have been ever ready soldiers; but the military fame of the father of the present Peer eclipsed that of all his predecessors, for, as a Cavalry leader in the wars against Buonaparte, the late Lord Anglesey and Sir Hussey Vivian were the only English commanders whose reputation compared with that of ‘Long Cotton’.
Being made a Baron at the peace, he was sent to India as Commander-in-Chief, took Bhurtpore, and thereby established a renown which few officers of horse had won since Peterborough captured Barcelona with Dragoons. A Colonelcy of a Life Guards regiment, a step in the Peerage, and a Field-Marshal’s baton rewarded him; and, dying full of years and honour, he was succeeded by the present Peer, born seventy years ago his father’s second wife of three. He, too, served in the 1st Life Guards, but his fame has been won rather in the hunting than in the tented field. As a sportsman he has achieved a great success, and in his subaltern period he won steeple-chases. As a country gentleman of business capacity, he divided honours with his close friend, the late Sir Watkin Wynn, and like him, was a Parliament man too, having represented Ulster borough for twelve years. But Ireland remembers him for his supreme judgement in horseflesh rather than for his legislative labours. In the Irish horse fairs he is better known than in St. James’s Street, and in the most famous of the horse-dealing counties, Lord Coventry and Lord Combermere are the only Sassenachs thought fit to judge Irish hunters at the great annual Horse Show. The enjoyment of all sports comes naturally to him; and, being sufficiently rich, he passes a pleasant life, and he is as hearty, acute, and hospitable a type of Englishman as the Peerage possesses. His now elderly children follow in his leanings. Cheshire loves him. He smokes the largest known cigars.'
Jehu Junior.
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 406mm
width (actual size): 275mm
width (actual size): 275mm
Inscription
Lettered ''horses'' and 'Vanity Fair May 5 1888'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse 'Viscount Combermere - Horses Port 13 Pt 3'
Inscribed in pencil on reverse 'Viscount Combermere - Horses Port 13 Pt 3'
Production
Person
Ward, Leslie, 1851 - 1922 (Artist)
Organisation
Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lithographer)
Date
05/05/1888
History and association
References
• Vanity Fair:
