Special Prize of 5000 Francs, Chantilly, May, 1841.
Dedicated to His Royal Highness the Duke or Orléans, the pair depicting the famous horse race.
London J. Moore at His Wholesale Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufactory, 1&2 Corner of West Street Upper St. Martin's Lane (Printseller By Special Appointment to H.R.H. Duke of Orleans et Paris, Gouph & Co. Boulevard Montmartre, No.15, 1st October, 1841.
Charles Hunt (1803-1877) is a very familiar name to collectors in the hugely popular field of sporting prints, here engaged by one of the most prominent publishers of such prints, John Moore, to translate the combined work of the landscape artist, George Bryant Campion (1795-1870), and one of the century's finest portrait painters of horses, John Frederick Herring Snr. (1795-1865).
Two subscriber's proofs, with title and text in both French and English, aquatint engravings, part-printed in colours à la poupée, and finished with fine original hand-colouring, heightened with gum-arabic, each c.530 x 730 mm., framed and glazed.
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