Tout Original Caricature - "Mrs. Sofer Whitburn"
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Title: "Mrs. Sofer Whitburn"
Date: c.1925-30
Description: Original watercolour and ink horse racing caricature for The Talter magazine by The Tout.
Clarissa Mary Sofer Whitburn, wife of Lt. Charles W. Sofer Whitburn, the well-known banker. She was a successful racehorse breeder, her trainer at one time was Mr Harry Cottrill. During the Second World War, she joined the W.A.A.F. She bred the 200 Guineas winner Adam's Apple in 1927 which ran in her husband's colours. She ran many good horses under her own name including, Chivalrous (winner of two Chester Cups), Drake (Middle Park Stakes), D'Orsay and Jennie Deans. Mrs. Whitburn also owned two greyhounds which won the Waterloo Cup.
Condition: Unframed, slight discolouration from original mount and some age toning.
Image size: 185cm x 270mm
7.25 x 10.75 "
£1200.00
Order No. 9972
Tout Cartoon - Mrs. Sofer Whitburn
BUCHANAN Peter Ronald C. 1870-1950
Known as The Tout he worked as a sports cartoonist and caricaturist for the News of the World and Tatler in the 1930’s and exhibited 128 drawings at Walker's Gallery, London, in 1931.
Produced two full page collections of racing driver caricatures for The Motor Magazine. These were given away as colour supplements on 3rd August and 26th September 1922, his main subjects were horse racing; owners, breeders and jockeys.
The Tatler was introduced on 3 July 1901, by Clement Shorter, publisher of The Sphere. It was named after the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. For some time a weekly publication, it had a subtitle varying on "an illustrated journal of society and the drama". It contained news and pictures of high society balls, charity events, race meetings, shooting parties, fashion and gossip, with cartoons by "The Tout" and H. M. Bateman.