Caption:
Portrait of William Taplin, author of The Gentlemans Stable Directory, A New Compendium of Farriery, etc. Taplin wrote about equine veterinary medicine for the hunt, track and the road, 1740-1807. Copperplate engraving by J. Scott after a painting by Benjamin Marshall from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1796.