Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Drag of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn
John Ferneley, 1843 · oil on canvas
What it is
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn’s drag, a private coach, waits with its team in a yard, signed and dated by John Ferneley at Melton Mowbray in 1843.
Why it matters
Ferneley worked from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire and is often ranked second only to Stubbs among British horse painters.
What to notice
A guardsman in scarlet stands at the right with a hound at his feet, and no two horses in the team are the same colour.
Ready to go, and in no hurry.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Ferneley, 1843
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1843
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth · via Wikimedia Commons
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 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-100-1923|deathyear=1860. The maker died in 1860.
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 27x41" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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