Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster - photo 1
Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster - photo 2
Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster - photo 3

Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster

Lot 71
27.06.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
$ 20 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 71 | Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
[HERRING, John Frederick (1795-1865).] Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the year 1824. Inclusive. Doncaster: W. Sheardown and Sons [but also White’s / J.F. Herring and London: S. & J. Fuller, 1825-1829].

"The silken coats of the horses, the satin jackets of the jockeys, the green background, and the merry crowd, touched a chord in the imagination of young Herring, which seems to have reverberated for many a day. He became 'turf struck'..." (Siltzer).

A beautiful copy of J.F. Herring’s defining work. Early issue with fine impressions of the plates and first, Doncaster, title-page. John Frederick Herring must have watched his first St. Leger in 1814 when he took the Royal Leeds Union stage from London to Doncaster. While lodging in the town he obtained the vacant post of coachman to the Nelson Inn. He followed this arduous profession for six years, ending up on the box of the prestigious “High Flyer” plying between York and London. In his leisure time he played the clarinet, composed music, and continued to paint. His first exhibit at the Royal Academy was “A Dog” in 1818. But the scheme that made him a household name found its expression in this extremely rare book, to which Pierce Egan was one of the subscribers. The Doncaster Gazette arranged for Herring to paint the winners of the St Leger from 1815 onwards. The pictures were then engraved and published first by Messrs Sheardown & Son, owners of the Gazette, who compiled an album of them in late 1824 or 1825. Subsequent to that album of 10 plates, Sheardown published two more engravings of winners before selling the whole series of plates to S. and J. Fuller of London in 1827. Fuller continued to publish the St. Leger winner series, periodically, up to 1845. This copy has a Doncaster title-page and includes the 10 plates most usually found in the Doncaster set plus an 11th of the Doncaster series depicting Memnon, the winner for 1825; and the following four plates in the Fuller series, from 1826 to 1829. The winner for 1826 (Tarrare) is the only one to have been engraved completely separately by both T. Sutherland for Sheardown and by the Fuller’s engraver, R.G. Reeve. Herring left Doncaster in 1829 and it was around this time that Fuller issued this series with their own title-page. The Winners list present here includes the column of horse color, one of two known variants of unknown priority. Mellon/Snelgrove Herring 2 (with plates 1-10); Podeschi 128 (with plates 1-11); Tooley 261 (Fuller ed.); Siltzer p. 145ff.

Broadsheet folio (554 x 412mm). 15 hand-colored aquatint horse portraits after the paintings of J.F. Herring, the first 11 are by T. Sutherland, the remaining 4 by R.G. Reeve. Watermarks dated 1824 or 1825 for the Doncaster plates and 1829 for the London ones. With letterpress title, 1-leaf list of subscribers, 1-leaf list of winners, 15 leaves of descriptive text to the plates, and tissue guards (mild handling creases to plates and text, mild soiling or spots in a few places, light edge-wear to text leaf of pl. 14). Contemporary straight-grained paneled red morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, all edges gilt, dark green coated endpapers (spine and edges scuffed, upper corners worn). Provenance: Sir Joseph Radcliffe of Rudding Park, 1799-1872 (bookplate) – Robert Law, Jr., 1874-1933, sportsman and oil financier (receipt laid in dated January 1923).
Artist:John Frederick Herring I (1795 - 1865)
Place of origin:England
Auction house category:Printed books
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