Title

The Ascot Race Plate: the Royal Hunt Cup - Death of the Boar, the Buck, and the Fox, 1856. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The Ascot Race Plate: the Royal Hunt Cup - Death of the Boar, the Buck, and the Fox, 1856. The "Royal Hunt Cup" is a tazza-shaped bowl, supported on a stem, around which are three distinct groups of figures, representing the death of the boar, the death of the buck, and the death of the fox, all admirably modelled, and of the most elaborate workmanship. The hunters, the dogs, and the animals of the chase, are distinct in character, but all unite to make a very perfect whole, full of vigorous truth. The brim is ornamented with stags' heads, which form what may be called its handles; and around the external part of it are represented, in bas-relief, a stag- hunt, and a herd of deer, in very good taste...[The piece was] manufactured at the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, gold and silver smiths to her Majesty, in Bond-street, after a model and design by Mr. Alfred Brown'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM23A57_416

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License type

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9,0Mb (526,5Kb) / 4,5in x 7,8in / 1340 x 2350 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal sport cup British color deer hunting stag stags prize century Britain races trophy newspapers press horse racing tableware B&W horse race engraved engraving ascot Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector deer hunting Illustrated London News ILN horse-race horse-racing Royal Ascot newspaper Unknown Brown Alfred 19th-century Ascot Cup Hunt and Roskell Roskell Hunt and Hunt & Roskell Hunt & Alfred Brown