Leamington Grand Steeple Chase, 1837 [Plate 4]

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Charles Hunt I was an aquatint engraver. He is best known for his engravings after the works of sporting artists, although his subjects also included transport, animal and topographical scenes. Although Hunt’s aquatints were generally made after the designs of his contemporaries, he sometimes made prints after his own designs. He was the father of Charles Hunt II, also an aquatint engraver of sporting subjects, and is thought to have been the brother of engraver George Hunt, with whom he collaborated early in his career. J. B. Hunt, who engraved a portrait of the trainer John Scott from a design by Harry Hall, published in the 1850s, may be another relative.

Places

England, Warwickshire

Subjects

horseback, horse-racing, jockey, topography, Victorian Genre, tree, horse, man, top hat, flag, field, hedgerow

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Francis Calcraft Turner ( - 1846)
Charles, I Hunt (1803 - 1877)

Title

Leamington Grand Steeple Chase, 1837 [Plate 4]

Date

published June 1837

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 73 cm; width: 90.5 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Withers (Leicester), October 1952

GAC number

1919