“The Age” Brighton Coach at the “Bull & Mouth”, Regent Circus, Piccadilly

Location

Country: Fiji
City: Suva
Place: British High Commission

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, London, Piccadilly Circus, Regent's Circus South, Piccadilly

Subjects

carriage, horseback, coach, barrel, topography, Victorian Genre, dog, horse, man, woman, 19th century costume, dress, coat, parasol, top hat, signage, lamp post, shop-front, street, bollard, inn, awning

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

E F Lambert
Charles, I Hunt (1803 - 1877)

Title

“The Age” Brighton Coach at the “Bull & Mouth”, Regent Circus, Piccadilly

Date

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Dimensions

height: 57.50 cm, width: 74.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from F B Daniell, May 1953

GAC number

2148