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Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
‘Elis’, Winner of the St Leger, 1836
John Frederick Herring Sr., 1836 · oil on canvas
What it is
Elis in his loose box, the year he won the St Leger — Herring’s formula, repeated for decades because it was correct.
Why it matters
Herring painted the winners of the great races year upon year; his portraits are the Victorian turf’s official memory.
What to notice
The straw and the stable door — the champion at rest is still the champion.
Every champion has a staff.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Frederick Herring Sr., 1836
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1836
- Horse
- Elis
- Source
- Worcester College, University of Oxford (no. 252 · PD) · 252
Print master
The largest formats are printed from a master enlarged 1.67× from the surviving 3600×2661 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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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.