Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Belvoir Hunt, The Death
Henry Thomas Alken, oil on canvas, c.1830s · oil on canvas
What it is
The hunt has run its fox to ground; hounds crowd in while the field pulls up around them, horses blown and steaming.
Why it matters
'The Death' closes Alken's hunting sequence as tradition demanded — the day painted whole, from the calm of the meet to this — because the sport's meaning sat in the arc, not any single moment of it.
What to notice
the steam rising off the nearest horse's flank, more honest than the drama gathered around the kill.
Every hunt ends the same distance from where it started: tired.
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 (T02355)
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 1200×834 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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