Portrait of the celebrated thoroughbred racer Escape with jockey and trainer. Owned by the Prince of Wales, George Augustus Frederick, later King George IV. He was got by Highflyer out of a sister to Sir James Lowther’s Babraham. Copperplate engraving by J. Walker after a painting by John Nost Sartorius Jr. from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1796.

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