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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)

Trouncer's Leap

Trouncer's Leap

$20

She heard a heavy crash

She heard a heavy crash

$20

Come on old man

Come on old man

$20

as every country gentleman

BILLSDON COPLOW
As every COUNTRY GENTLEMAN may not comprehend...

$15

Stick to him and the old horse will come through

Stick to him and the old horse will come through

$20

Harbinger with a might effort

Harbinger with a might effort scrambled up the perpendicular rise

$20

Go on, old man. I'll catch you up.

Go on, old man. I'll catch you up.

$20

Not Nimrods by nature

Not Nimrods by nature

$20

You weren't frightened, Pussy?

You weren't frightened, Pussy?

$20

A day with Jock Trotter

A day with Jock Trotter

$20

Old days in the Vale of Aylesbury

Old days in the Vale of Aylesbury

$20

Joe shoves the Mare along

Joe shoves the Mare along

$20

Then Shurstrap was such a specimen of equestrianism as had never met his eyes before

Then Shurstrap was such a specimen of equestrianism as had never met his eyes before

$20

All the ladies smiled...

All the ladies smiled and said 'thank you so much!'

$20

Nobody names the Winner

Nobody names the Winner!

$20

Mornin old Boy

Mornin' old Boy!

$20

A Post and Rail Country

A Post and Rail Country

$20

Bravo, old chap! Watch out for the ditch at front!

Bravo, old chap! Watch out for the ditch at front!

$20

The OBH at Newberries

The OBH at Newberries...

$20

All UP with the Mare

All UP with the Mare

$20

The Wise Men of Eton starting for Sult Hill

The Wise Men of Eton starting for Sult Hill

$15

Faces at the Station

Faces at the Station

$10

Ikey Moss lays against Chimney Sweep

Ikey Moss lays against Chimney Sweep

$15

Young Nimrod bowled out

Young Nimrod bowled out!

$10

Now then! Who's for the Old Times?

Now then! Who's for the Old Times?

$10

The Lady she carried

The Lady she carried

$10

As the Squire very truly observes...

As the Squire very truly observes...

$15

A guineas to a gooseberry

A guineas to a gooseberry on the old white horse

$15

poor dear boy

Poor dear boy! He does so awfully like to be petted then.

$15

Marske after G Stubbs

MARSKE
after G. Stubbs, R.A.

$25

Marske after G Stubbs

THE GODOLPHIN ARABIAN
after G. Stubbs, R.A.

$25

FLYING CHILDERS

FLYING CHILDERS

$25

Good Heavens

Good Heavens! How the colt has furnished!

$25

I want something with more style and quality

I want something with more style and quality

$20

My mother was standing by me

My mother was standing by me

$20

He follows the flying herd

He follows the flying herd

$30

The herd exhausted

The herd exhausted

$30

He worried him to such a tune that

He worried him to such a tune that...

$30

 
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Thousands of Antique & Vintage Sporting prints