Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Belvoir Hunt, Jumping into and out of a Lane
Henry Thomas Alken, oil on canvas, c.1830s · oil on canvas
What it is
A sunken lane crosses the Belvoir's line, and the field drops down into it before scrambling up the far bank.
Why it matters
Alken preferred the ugly obstacle to the clean fence — a lane crossing broke a horse's stride twice in one movement, and that broken rhythm was truer to a real hunting day than any tidy jump.
What to notice
the horse at centre, hocks bent hard under it, already gathering for the second leap before the first has landed.
The country, not the horse, decides who follows.
Provenance
- Maker
- Henry Thomas Alken, oil on canvas, c.1830s
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1833
- Source
- Tate (T02353)
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 1200×784 scan by AI enhancement (Claid smart-enhance), prepared for the considered detail of a print viewed at distance. The source record above is unchanged — the enhancement serves the wall, not the archive.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-20.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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