![HORSE RACING -- HERRING John Frederick (1795-1865). Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St.Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the year 1824. Doncaster and London: published by Sheardown and Son, High-Street [Doncaster] and W.Sams, Book and Printseller to the Royal Family, oppposite St. James Palace, [1825].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07300_0673_000(113241).jpg?w=1)
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HORSE RACING -- HERRING John Frederick (1795-1865). Portraits of the Winning Horses of the Great St.Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, from the year 1815 to the year 1824. Doncaster and London: published by Sheardown and Son, High-Street [Doncaster] and W.Sams, Book and Printseller to the Royal Family, oppposite St. James Palace, [1825].
Large 2° (620 x 430mm). Letterpress title, list of subscribers, winners of the St Leger 1776-1814, 10 hand-coloured aquatint horse portraits by T.Sutherland after Herring of the winners of the great race from 1815 to 1824, each with letterpress description of riders and winners of the Produce and the St Leger stakes for each year. (Occasional light spotting to margins, slight finger soiling to edges.) Original blue half roan with publishers brown boards, paper label on upper cover, note from the publishers and errata pasted on front and back pastedowns, uncut, late 19th century half morocco box.
THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF ONE OF THE FINEST EARLY 19TH CENTURY SERIES OF RACEHORSE PORTRAITS BY ONE OF THE GREATEST SPORTING ARTISTS OF HIS DAY. This, the first issue of the St Leger winners, was published in 60 copies, distributed to 53 subscribers. Rarely seen at book auctions, only one copy has come to the market in the last 27 years (the Widener copy, Doyles, New York, 3 May 2000). John Frederick Herring was born in Blackfriars, London, in 1795, and apparently eloped to Doncaster in 1814 to marry in 1815. He had taken up the occupation of coach painter and soon graduated to coach driving, taking the High Flyer on its daily run from Doncaster to London. By 1816 he gave up driving to concentrate on his horse painting and soon received many commissions for portraits of hunters and racehorses. His first exhibit at the R.A. in 1818, was of a dog, but soon horses became his forte. In 1825 the Doncaster Gazette commissioned Herring to paint a series of the winners of the St. Leger, most portrayed retrospectively rather from life, and issued the present series to a small number of select subscribers. The plates of these first 10 plates were purchased by S. & J.Fuller of London in 1827 who continued to publish, periodically, the St. Leger winner series up to 1845. Herring left Doncaster in 1830 to settle in Newmarket but went on to London in 1834, and in time became the foremost horse painter of his day. Lane pp.119-121; Siltzer pp.139-145; cf. Mellon/Snelgrove pp. 93-96. cf. Tooley p.218 (1829 issue).
Large 2° (620 x 430mm). Letterpress title, list of subscribers, winners of the St Leger 1776-1814, 10 hand-coloured aquatint horse portraits by T.Sutherland after Herring of the winners of the great race from 1815 to 1824, each with letterpress description of riders and winners of the Produce and the St Leger stakes for each year. (Occasional light spotting to margins, slight finger soiling to edges.) Original blue half roan with publishers brown boards, paper label on upper cover, note from the publishers and errata pasted on front and back pastedowns, uncut, late 19th century half morocco box.
THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF ONE OF THE FINEST EARLY 19TH CENTURY SERIES OF RACEHORSE PORTRAITS BY ONE OF THE GREATEST SPORTING ARTISTS OF HIS DAY. This, the first issue of the St Leger winners, was published in 60 copies, distributed to 53 subscribers. Rarely seen at book auctions, only one copy has come to the market in the last 27 years (the Widener copy, Doyles, New York, 3 May 2000). John Frederick Herring was born in Blackfriars, London, in 1795, and apparently eloped to Doncaster in 1814 to marry in 1815. He had taken up the occupation of coach painter and soon graduated to coach driving, taking the High Flyer on its daily run from Doncaster to London. By 1816 he gave up driving to concentrate on his horse painting and soon received many commissions for portraits of hunters and racehorses. His first exhibit at the R.A. in 1818, was of a dog, but soon horses became his forte. In 1825 the Doncaster Gazette commissioned Herring to paint a series of the winners of the St. Leger, most portrayed retrospectively rather from life, and issued the present series to a small number of select subscribers. The plates of these first 10 plates were purchased by S. & J.Fuller of London in 1827 who continued to publish, periodically, the St. Leger winner series up to 1845. Herring left Doncaster in 1830 to settle in Newmarket but went on to London in 1834, and in time became the foremost horse painter of his day. Lane pp.119-121; Siltzer pp.139-145; cf. Mellon/Snelgrove pp. 93-96. cf. Tooley p.218 (1829 issue).
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