Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Belvoir Hunt, The Meet
Henry Thomas Alken, oil on canvas, c.1830s · oil on canvas
What it is
The Belvoir field assembles at the meet on a morning of hard frost, riders and hounds gathered before the day's run begins.
Why it matters
'The Meet' is the hunting sequence's calm half, and Alken painted it with the same care as the run itself — the ceremony that made sense of the chaos to come.
What to notice
the breath visible from both horse and rider in the cold air, the only motion in an otherwise still scene.
Stillness is where a hunt actually begins.
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 (T02352)
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 1114×762 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 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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Elsewhere in the family
- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.