Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Suffolk Hunt: Going to Cover near Herringswell
John Frederick Herring Sr., 1833 · oil on canvas
What it is
The huntsman on a grey leads the pack past a gate toward cover near Herringswell, the first of John Frederick Herring’s four Suffolk Hunt canvases of 1833.
Why it matters
The set tells a day’s hunting in order, the way the sporting print shops sold it, but painted in oil.
What to notice
The hounds spill across the foreground, noses down, while the field gathers on the horizon.
Morning, before anyone knows.
Provenance
- Maker
- John Frederick Herring Sr., 1833
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1833
- 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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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.