Lot 137
Cruikshank (Isaac Robert) Going to a Fight The Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst, aquatint panorama, 1819
Hammer Price: £700
Description
Cruikshank (Isaac Robert) Going to a Fight The Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, 42 numbered scenes on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip, approx. 60 x 3750 mm (23 3/4 x 147 3/4 in), rather soiled and browned, with sheet loss to the beginning of the panorama with the first scene lacking, a few stains, several tears and crude repairs throughout, numerous nicks and small losses, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in hand-coloured pictorial aquatint label featuring boxing scene and title at head & foot, drum c.110 mm tall, rubbed and very browned with loss, [Abbey, Life 473; Bobins 1595], Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819.
⁂ Depicting a long procession of gentlemen in various carriages and coaches, and even one on a dandy-horse (an early form of bicycle), on their way to see an outdoor boxing match. They pass various buildings and inns along the way, cross a river in boats or on ferries for horses and carriages, arriving at the field for the prize fight complete with betting stands. The final two scenes show a man being tossed by a bull and the interior of a coaching yard.
Description
Cruikshank (Isaac Robert) Going to a Fight The Sporting World in all its variety of Style and Costume along the Road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst, hand-coloured aquatint panorama, 42 numbered scenes on conjoined sheets forming continuous strip, approx. 60 x 3750 mm (23 3/4 x 147 3/4 in), rather soiled and browned, with sheet loss to the beginning of the panorama with the first scene lacking, a few stains, several tears and crude repairs throughout, numerous nicks and small losses, on roller housed in original boxwood drum covered in hand-coloured pictorial aquatint label featuring boxing scene and title at head & foot, drum c.110 mm tall, rubbed and very browned with loss, [Abbey, Life 473; Bobins 1595], Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1819.
⁂ Depicting a long procession of gentlemen in various carriages and coaches, and even one on a dandy-horse (an early form of bicycle), on their way to see an outdoor boxing match. They pass various buildings and inns along the way, cross a river in boats or on ferries for horses and carriages, arriving at the field for the prize fight complete with betting stands. The final two scenes show a man being tossed by a bull and the interior of a coaching yard.