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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1933,0408.3
Title: Object: Fleet Marston Brook; Series: Vale of Aylesbury steeple chase
Description: Jockeys racing across a field, on the right, having crossed a stream; in the background, other jockeys race towards it, and one rider and his horse struggle out of the water. Two men sit in a tree on the far left, cheering the riders. 1836 Hand-coloured aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Charles Hunt; Print made by: George Hunt; After: Francis Calcraft Turner; Published by: John Moore
School/style: British
Production date: 1836
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 391 millimetres; Width: 574 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See John Hickman, 'The engravings of Charles and George Hunt', Norwich 2017, pp.512-5 (the set of four plates).
Bibliographic references: Siltzer 1929 / The story of British sporting prints (p.276)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: equestrian
Associated names: Portrait of: Henry de la Poer Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford; Portrait of: Martin William Becher
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Art Fund (as NACF)
Acquisition date: 1933
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1933,0408.3

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