The story of British sporting prints / by Frank Siltzer
1929, New Edition. London : Halton & Truscott Smith. Good copy in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Item #304401
Physical description; 412 p., 8 leaves of plates ; 28 cm. Notes; Originally published: 1925. Includes index. Contents; Introduction. -- Artists and their engraved works. J.L. Agasse ; Alken family ; George Alkin ; Charles Ansell ; James Barenger ; William and Henry Barraud ; Thomas Bennet ; Henry Bernard Chalon ; Abraham Cooper, R.A. ; Richard Barrett Davis ; Lieutenant J.T. Downman ; Edward Duncan ; M. ("M. E.") Edgerton ; Stephen Elmer ; John E. Ferneley ; Sir Robert Frankland, Bt. ; George Garrard, A.R.A. ; Sawrey Gilpin ; T. Gooch ; Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. ; Harry Hall ; Charles Hancock ; G. Havell ; Robert Havell ; William Heath ; Charles Cooper Henderson ; John F. Herring ; W.P. Hodges ; Samuel Howitt ; Charles Hunt ; Julius Cæsar Ibbetson ; G. Jones ; Richard Jones ; Samuel John Egbert Jones ; E.F. Lambert ; Sir E. Landseer, R.A. ; George Henry Laporte ; Benjamin Marshall ; George Morland ; C.B. Newhouse ; Sir John Dean Paul, Bt. ; Robert and James Pollard ; Philip Reinagle, R.A. ; Thomas Rowlandson ; Francis and John N. Sartorius ; James Seymour ; William J. Shayer ; Charles Loraine Smith ; Thomas Smith (of Derby) ; George Stubbs, A.R.A. ; Peter Tillemans ; F.C. Turner ; James Ward, R.A. ; The Wolstenholmes ; Thomas Woodward ; John Wootton. -- Prize-fighters and prize-fights. -- Miscellaneous sporting plates after various artists. -- Miscellaneous sporting plates after unknown artists. -- Cricket plates. -- Appendices. I. The publishers of old sporting engravings ; II. Sporting plates contained in this volume listed under their engravers ; III. List of artists, c. 1750-1850 known to have painted or designed sporting pictures whether engraved or not ; IV. Race horses, engraved portraits and sets ; V. Race horses, steeplechasers, and trotters, the more important portraits in aquatint, line, and mezzotint. Subjects; Sporting prints. Engravers Great Britain Biography. Engravers, British. Prints, British Collections. Engravers Great Britain. Sporting prints British. Engravers Great Britain. Prints, British. Sports in art. Genre; Catalogue.
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