Historic Hunt Print Antique mall find

[danceronice]

So, I was browsing the local antique mall (nominally for stuff for my etsy store, but I always end up buying things to keep!) I came across this BIG framed hunt print. Unlike most of the decorator prints the dealers have, this one was dated and labeled and appears to be an actual print.

http://luckytocope.wordpress.com

The painting the print is from is dated 1855 and the print is of Sir Richard Sutton and the Quorn Hounds. Anyone know anything about the hunt pictured?

Some of the other pictures in the post are hunt related.

[JSwan]

That is SO cool.

Here’s the website of the hunt. http://www.quornhunt.co.uk/

It’s one of the oldest hunts in the world - very famous.

Fantastic find.

[fernie_fox]

I hunted with the Quorn from 1970 to 1882 when I came over here.

The Belvoir and Fernie hunts all adjoin each other,in High Leicestershire.

We could hunt 6 days a week if we wanted.

The fastest hunting I have ever done,we often cooked 2 horses in one day,and believe me our horses were very fit.

1847 to 1856: Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet

[danceronice]

Wow! And I wish the picture showed what a huge print it is. I have no idea how old it is or if it’s even a real engraved print or a modern copy (and am not keen to destroy the framing job to find out–suffice to say the framing alone is more than the $39 I paid for it.)

I wonder if the hunt knows who the hounds and Sir Richard’s horse in the picture are–probably those are real members in the picture as well (I’m assuming he’s the one at picture center on the bay with the blaze.)

I knew people on here would know it if it was a real hunt–didn’t think anyone would have actually ridden with them!

[Equibrit]

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4570600 Lithograph (should be numbered with a plate impression)

http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Sir-Richard-Sutton-and-the-Quorn-Hounds-Posters_i376869_.htm Poster.

http://www.colombart.co.uk/Engraving_ENG20.htm Engraving.

Master 1847 to 1856: Sir Richard Sutton, 2nd Baronet

[danceronice]

It is probably the lithograph. It’s not a dot-matrix poster and the colors are wrong for the engraving (at least appear to be–impossible to tell from online) but I’d have to take it out of the frame to be sure. Which would be silly, as the frame job is more than I paid for it, without even accounting for the print.

The second hunt print in the post is a decorator item printed directly on matte board–MUCH lighter! The third, at the end of the post, is a copy of a painting done on canvasboard (that’s warped because the “antique shop” I got it from is in a barn. Without having converted the barn. Their cloth goods were disgusting.) The Louisville print is very clearly a modern print (you can see the print matrix) but also huge.

Probably the most expensive thing per square inch was Lucky’s win picture!

I just hope it hasn’t fallen off the wall. It’s hugely heavy.