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Coursing,
Coursing, View near Epsom. / Plate 4
Painted by S.N. Sartorius. Engraved by J. Pollard.
London / Published by T. Helme, at his Picture Frame Manufactory, 15, Tabernacle Square, Old Street Road May 1833.
Aquatint with hand-colouring, platemark 460 x 550mm (18 x 21½"). Very large margins. Paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1833'. Creasing; damage inside upper platemark.
Final plate from a set of four coursing prints, showing the return from the hunt with a servant carrying a dead rabbit. Presumably after animal and sporting painter John Nost Sartorius (1759-1829), whose popularity in the field was second only to that of his contemporary George Stubbs, but given here as 'S.N. Sartorius'.
Siltzer: Not in.
[Ref: 37554]   £550.00  
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Epsom Races.
Epsom Races.
Drawn & Engraved by James Pollard.
London, Published by J. Moore, at his Looking-Glass & Picture-Frame Manufactory, 1 West Street, St Martin's Lane. [n.d., c.1835.]
Rare & fine aquatint. 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾"), on paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1835'. Tear entering plate but not image, crack in platemark with loss of margin bottom left.
A semi-satirical view, with a horse race in progress, but showing the chaos of the spectators' coaches, with people being knocked over and falling off their horses. Bottom left scammers are running the three cup ball trick.
[Ref: 52136]   £580.00  
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Trotting Match in Harness Against Time.
Trotting Match in Harness Against Time. Creeping Sally, a Brown Mare 14 Hands high and Blind, the Property of & Drove by Mr. W.E. Walter [...]
Engraved by Ja.s Pollard from the Original Drawing by J.N. Sartorius.
[Published Feb.y 1817. as th Act Directs by W.E. Walter Stable-keeper Grub Street Cripplegate.]
Aquatint, scarce, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 455 x 530mm (18 x 20¾"). Trimmed, losing publication line, some scuffing.
A record of a race of 50 miles on 17th October 1816, from Shoreditch Church, through Epping and Harlow, accomplished within the allotted five hours, despite fog and rain.
[Ref: 57396]   £420.00  
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