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Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches

Darvill's Rare Prints is pleased to offer a huge selection of lithographs from
"Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches, a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of
British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport."

These prints are from Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches, an English quarterly magazine
published from 1884 through the early 1900s. It contained articles and stories about sports
at home and abroad, including equestrian, sailing, hunting, fishing, golf.
Please refer to the Sporting Prints page for a list of the available categories.
Each issue included eight-full page duotoned lithographs.

Duotone Tinted Lithographs with goldish background that varies somewhat in coloration
(any black and white prints are offset lithographs)
Sheet size: approximately 8 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches (about 21.7 x 14.2 cm)


Horse Racing, Steeplechase, miscellaneous horse sports and subjects

(click thumbnail for enlarged view)

Go it Moses

Go it Moses

$20

Waverly the Wizard of the North stops to kick

Waverly by Wizard of the North stops to kick

$20

he'll win –  he'll win!

he'll win – he'll win!

$25

Capt Becker prepares to receive Cavalry

Capt Becker prepares to receive Cavalry

$25

We went and saw the trial

We went and saw the trial

$25

Go it Sambo

Go it Sambo!

$45

You here Sam?

You here Sam?

$20

For it's Brow Bay and Tray...

For it's Brow Bay and Tray...

$15

The Dead Heat

The Dead Heat

$25

Dragoon's Cup Only two in it

The Dragoon's Cup. Only two in it.

$25

sketches

[various sketches, Bend Ors, etc.]

$10

Rory O'Mare (?) distinguishes himself

Rory O'Mare (?) distinguishes himself

$25

Kathleen suddenly whipped round

Kathleen suddenly whipped round

$30

Let me introduce you

Let me introduce you...

$20

My horse wins!

My horse wins!

$20

I see him gallup past the post in an easy manner

I see him gallup past the post in an easy manner

$30

The little devil! he'll make another Archer

The little devil! he'll make another Archer

$30

Fan's Fence

Fan's Fence

$35

Won by his heels

Won by his heels

$35

All over hit shouting

All over hit shouting

$25

Cantering to the Post

Cantering to the Post

$25

Just in time

Just in time

$20

His horses were sent to Tatts

His horses were sent to Tatts

$20

Duck you fool

Duck you fool! roar the specators

$25

100 to 1 on Bend Or

100 to 1 on Bend Or

$25

Five refuse

Five refuse

$20

A drop in to a Hertfordshire Lane

A drop in to a Hertfordshire Lane

$20

Forrard

Forrard! Forrard!

$20

Steeple-chase Cracks after J.F. Herring, Senr.

Steeple-chase Cracks
after J.F. Herring, Senr.

$25

glorious burst of thirty minutes

Steeple-chase Cracks
after J.F. Herring, Senr.

$25

         
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Thousands of Antique & Vintage Sporting prints