Horse Gallery

A man gets real pleasure from PLAYER'S, 1967

Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes small counter-card featuring a photographic image of a fair-haired man on horseback looking to the left behind him. The man wears jeans, a denim jacket and checked shirt

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Advertising, Horse, John Player And Sons, Nature, Nottingham, Outdoors, Relaxing, Riding, Sport, Tobacco

Two racehorses with grooms and hounds in the park at Newstead Abbey, by Peter Tillemans, 1724

One of a pair of sporting paintings depicting the 4th Lord Byron's racehorses and their grooms in the grounds at Newstead Abbey. The two horses are shown full-length walking in profile to the viewer's left, a young groom in red costume and carrying a riding crop in his right hand astride the gray horse; a second groom on foot, his back to the viewer, leads the other horse. In the foreground three dogs stand or run. In the background are the west and south facades of the Abbey with a view into the Great Garden beyond. Three horses exercise in the middle distance. Oil on canvas in 20th-c

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Weights Cigarettes, 1921=22

Player's Weights rectangular, convex counter card. The background simulates grey crocodile or snake skin. In the centre of the top half there is a circular panel. The background of this is red crocodile or snake skin and in the centre is the head and neck of a horse. To the bottom right of the panel is a packet of Weights cigarettes. The text below reads "PLAYER'S // "WEIGHTS" // CIGARETTES // John Player & Sons, Nottingham.". On the reverse is a support to allow the card to stand upright and a label which reads "MARDONS // WINDOW NOVELTIES // EMBOSSED SHOWCARDS / &C, &C // VARNISHERS // GELATINERS & FRAME MAKERS // BRISTOL & LONDON."."

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