Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Doncaster St. Leger - The Finish
Henry Thomas Alken, hand-coloured aquatint, c.1830s · hand-coloured aquatint
What it is
The leaders draw clear down the St Leger straight at Doncaster while the crowd rises along the rail.
Why it matters
Start and Finish were sold as a pair, book-ending the race for a buyer who wanted the whole story hung on one wall.
What to notice
the gap already opened between the front two horses and the rest of the field.
The crowd only rises for the last hundred yards.
Provenance
- Maker
- Henry Thomas Alken, hand-coloured aquatint, c.1830s
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured aquatint
- Made
- 1836
- Source
- Private collection
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 985×697 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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Steeplechasing — The Start
‘Elis’, Winner of the St Leger, 1836
Fores’s National Sports — The Run In
The Trotting Mare Nancy Hanks
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.