Sujet

Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Creator: Frederick John Skill.

Légende

Coursing meeting at Hampton Park, 1860. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Elstob Marshall. '...the Hampton Meeting is the great rendezvous for Cockney coursers...This year the coursing at the Champion Meeting was...extremely good on the second [day]; but the hares are unusually scarce, and it will be difficult to find enough of them to last through the season. The grass, too, is unusually long, which, coupled with the wet season, has caused them to run rather weak...[The scene depicts] deciding the course for the Victoria Stakes between Mr. Purser's Pride of the Village, by Black Cloud, and Mr. Allison's Afternoon, by Judge. The first time they were slipped neither of them got sighted, but Afternoon caught a view at last, and had a longish single-handed course, which materially interfered with her chance. At the next attempt Pride of the Village was last out of the slips, but soon passed her opponent, and won a nice trial on all points. Mr. Warwick is always the judge, and Mr. Mills has just been appointed slipper. He has, therefore, still to acquire his knowledge of the ground, for, as our greatest greyhound-writer, "Stonehenge," observes, "Nowhere is experience more wanted than at Hampton Court, as a straight slip is most difficult to get".' From "Illustrated London News", 1860.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B17_119

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,7Mo (4,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 26,1cm / 4960 x 3082 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal park countryside London England woman women woman people man sport man men hat animals horses horse riding rider riders arts dog dogs art guy clothes British color hunting chasing hunter hunters pursuit hare galloping dress rustic horseman horsemen cruelty blood sports location century Britain newspapers press clothing print concept top hat top hats APPAREL B&W cruel pursuing engraved engraving hunting dogs hunting dog Colour horsewoman 19th century black & white black and white HUNTSMAN B W white and black Hampton nineteenth century rural The Print Collector hare coursing Illustrated London News Richmond upon Thames rural life TGN ILN newspaper animal cruelty Huntsmen Regionalism Horsewomen tophat huntswoman cruelty to animals 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing Frederick John Skill Skill Frederick John Hampton Court Park William Elsob Marshall Marshall William Elsob Marshall William Elstob William Elstob Marshall