Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Bloomsbury, Winner at Epsom, 1839
Edward Duncan after Charles Hancock, 1839 · hand-coloured aquatint with varnish
What it is
Bloomsbury walks across the downs with his jockey up, in Edward Duncan’s hand-coloured aquatint after Charles Hancock, with varnish laid over the colour on the horse.
Why it matters
Bloomsbury won at Epsom on his first racecourse appearance in 1839, and his disputed breeding led to two formal objections and a court case.
What to notice
The varnish gives the bay coat a sheen the paper around it does not have.
A win they argued over.
Provenance
- Maker
- Edward Duncan after Charles Hancock, 1839
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured aquatint with varnish
- Made
- 1839
- Horse
- Bloomsbury
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons · B1985.36.448
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|deathyear=1882|Cc-zero. 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
$29.00
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