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Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Fores’s National Sports — The Run In
engraved by John Harris Jr., published by Fores, 1866 · hand-coloured aquatint
What it is
The run in to the post — the print-shop window’s pride from the Fores firm’s great racing series, restored to museum grade.
Why it matters
The Fores firm made the sporting print an institution; the series is the genre’s high water.
What to notice
The turf thrown by the leaders — printed clods, a shilling extra of drama.
The nineteenth century’s action film, one frame long.
Provenance
- Maker
- engraved by John Harris Jr., published by Fores, 1866
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured aquatint
- Made
- 1866
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art (B1985.36.546 · CC0) · B1985.36.546
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 3× from the surviving 1920×1208 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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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