Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Steeplechase Cracks: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount, and Jem Mason on Lottery
John Frederick Herring Sr., before 1847 · oil on canvas
What it is
Three jump jockeys sit their horses abreast: Allen McDonough on Brunette, Tom Oliver on Discount and Jem Mason on Lottery, painted by J. F. Herring before 1847.
Why it matters
Jem Mason won at Aintree on 26 February 1839 riding Lottery, the brown-bay horse at the right of this picture.
What to notice
Each rider wears his own colours, red, black and blue, and the three horses stand in step like a team.
Three men who rode the fences for a living.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Frederick Herring Sr., before 1847
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1846
- Horse
- Lottery
- Figure
- Jem Mason
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Publicity
Clear — the historic British turf (the Victorian jockeys, the Vanity Fair subjects): a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
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. Year for the gate, from the record: before 1847.
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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Steeplechasing — The Start
‘Elis’, Winner of the St Leger, 1836
Fores’s National Sports — The Run In
The Trotting Mare Nancy Hanks
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.