Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Royal Mail Coach on the Road
John Frederick Herring Sr., 1841 · oil on panel
What it is
The Royal Mail coach comes head-on down a sandy road with its passengers on the roof, signed and dated in brown paint “J.F. Herring. 1841.”
Why it matters
Mail coaches carried the post to a General Post Office design, with an armed guard at the rear and passengers paying a premium fare.
What to notice
Herring sends the team straight toward the viewer, a bay and a grey in the lead, so the coach seems to arrive.
The post, on time.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Frederick Herring Sr., 1841
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Made
- 1841
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · 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=1865. The maker died in 1865.
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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