Research Catalog

Title

The engravings of Charles and George Hunt, 1820-1880 : racing, coaching, hunting, landscapes & caricatures / John Hickman ; edited and designed by Helen Robertson.

Author

Hickman, John, 1942-

Publication

London : Unicorn Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

xliii, 596 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

Charles and George Hunt, two of the most skilled and prolific engravers of their day, flourished during the boom period of the English Sporting Print (1820-1870). The British public's enthusiasm for horse racing, hunting and coaching grew rapidly during the early years of the nineteenth century, and the aspirational middle classes wanted colourful images of these scenes to decorate their walls. So the Hunts were kept busy reproducing the oil paintings and watercolours of, among others, Henry Alken, J. F. Herring, F. C. Turner and James Pollard, capturing the essence and atmosphere of this particularly English art.This is a useful reference work for dealers and collectors of nineteenth-century engravings and aquatints featuring horse racing, coaching, hunting, other sporting scenes, and caricatures. It also provides an introduction to the development of British sporting art from the late seventeenth century, and the boom in print making from c.1820.

Subject

• Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857 > Catalogs
• Hunt, George, active 1824-1831 > Catalogs
• Hunt, Charles (I), 1803-1877
• Hunt, George, 1798/99-na1871
• 1800-1899
• Engraving, English > 19th century > Catalogs
• Etching, English > 19th century > Catalogs
• Aquatint, English > 19th century > Catalogs
• Horse racing in art
• Horses in art
• Sporting art

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-582) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781910065976
• 1910065978

OCLC

984680547

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library