Lester Reiff, 'Lester' (Vanity Fair)

Lester Reiff, drawn full-length in silks, one of the American jockeys whose seat unsettled the English weighing room at the turn of the century. The Reiff brothers arrived already schooled in the crouched, high-stirrup style American riders had worked out before it reached England, and Lester was the elder name that opened the door his younger brother walked through after him. the crouch itself, higher in the iron and lower over the withers than the upright English seat Spy had been drawing for decades before Reiff crossed the Atlantic. A seat can cross an ocean faster than a reputation.

Maker

Leslie Ward ('Spy'), chromolithograph, Vanity Fair

Date

1900

Medium of the original

Chromolithograph

Original held by

Yale Center for British Art

Credit

Yale Center for British Art

Rights

Cleared for print

Catalogue number

PA-00122