Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Bay Middleton, Winner at Epsom, 1836
Edward Duncan after Charles Hancock, 1836 · hand-coloured aquatint
What it is
Bay Middleton walks across warm, sandy downland with his jockey up, in Edward Duncan’s hand-coloured aquatint after Charles Hancock.
Why it matters
Bay Middleton won at Epsom in 1836, and his name lasted long enough for a later Victorian horseman to take it as a nickname.
What to notice
The horse is shown mid-stride, one foreleg lifted, which sets this plate apart from the standing portraits around it.
Walking off a winner.
Provenance
- Maker
- Edward Duncan after Charles Hancock, 1836
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured aquatint
- Made
- 1836
- Horse
- Bay Middleton
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons · B1985.36.447
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: Licensed-PD-Art|PD-old-auto-expired|cc-zero|deathyear=1882. The maker died in 1882.
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
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