Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
The Suffolk Hunt: The Death
John Frederick Herring Sr., 1833 · oil on canvas
What it is
The last of Herring’s four Suffolk Hunt canvases, 1833: the pack closes in by a stream and the riders arrive and pull up.
Why it matters
Seen together, the four canvases are a single day told the way the print-shop series told it.
What to notice
The huntsman raises his cap at the left, and a grey stands at the right among the hounds.
The day, finished.
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.