JOHN WHESSELL (BRITISH 1760-1824) Parasol (Plate 4th of Portraits Celebrated Running Horses) Published by J. Deeley, March 1 1814. titled and inscribed (centre) engraving 30.5 x 39 cm together with six further various prints by various hands, to include two more equestrians prints, two military engravings, a landscape and an offset lithographs after Thorburn, 37.5 x 48.5 (the largest) and similar. Parasol (1800–1826) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In total she won twenty of her thirty-five races, including two Newmarket First October King's Plates, the Jockey-Club Plate and a match race against Derby winner Cardinal Beaufort. Her only race away from Newmarket was for her début, in the Oaks Stakes in 1803. She was bred and owned by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. As a broodmare she foaled the stallion Partisan, 2000 Guineas winner Pindarrie and Pastille, who won both the 2000 Guineas and the Oaks. (7)