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Tom Loates (Vanity Fair)

Name: Tom Loates (Vanity Fair)
Brand: The Paddock
SKU: PA-00134

Leslie Ward ('Spy'), chromolithograph, Vanity Fair, 1890

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 24% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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Tom Loates, drawn by Spy trim and neat in the paddock rather than mid-race, one more of the riding Loates brothers to earn a plate. Loates rode among the leading jockeys of the flat in his day, and this plate, like his brother Sam's, records a family whose name carried weight in the ring for years running. the neatness of the drawing, Spy's compliment to a rider known for an economical, unfussy style in the saddle. Some families win in the same shape, generation to generation.

Maker: Leslie Ward ('Spy'), chromolithograph, Vanity Fair
Date: 1890
Medium of the original: Chromolithograph
Original held by: Vanity Fair caricature
Credit: Vanity Fair caricature
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00134

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Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 24% crop
8 x 12 in	146 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 22% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
12 x 18 in	97 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 24% crop
16 x 24 in	73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
20 x 30 in	58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 24% crop
24 x 36 in	48 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 19% crop
40 x 60 in	29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged