Carl Gustaf Hyalmar Morner

Horse Race - Original Etching by C. G. Hyalmar Morner - 1820

1820

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Title: Antique Horse Racing Print by Henry Alken, Hand-Colored Sporting Etching Description: A lively and highly decorative hand-colored sporting etching titled Racing, designed and etched by the celebrated English sporting artist Henry Alken and published around 1822 as part of The Sporting Repository or the related series The National Sports of Great Britain. This dynamic early 19th-century composition captures the excitement and spectacle of an English horse race at full speed, with elegantly mounted jockeys charging across the course before a densely gathered crowd of spectators. The scene perfectly embodies the energy and theatrical atmosphere of Regency-era sporting culture. Alken masterfully conveys movement through the extended forms of the galloping horses and the animated positioning of the riders, while the immense crowd in the background creates a vivid sense of public excitement. The dramatic sky and broad racing field add depth and atmosphere to the composition, making it both a fascinating historical document and a visually striking decorative artwork. Henry Alken (1785–1851) was among the most important English sporting artists of the 19th century. Renowned for his depictions of horse racing, fox hunting, coaching scenes, and country sports, Alken became one of the defining visual chroniclers of British sporting life during the Regency period. His works were widely admired for their lively draftsmanship, humor, and keen understanding of equestrian movement. Publications such as The Sporting Repository helped establish sporting art as one of the most fashionable collecting categories of the era. This engraving combines etching and aquatint techniques with delicate original hand-coloring, producing subtle tonal transitions and rich atmospheric depth. The restrained palette and panoramic composition give the print an elegant decorative quality highly suited to classic English interiors, libraries, gentlemen’s clubs, equestrian collections, or refined sporting rooms. Today, original Alken sporting prints remain highly sought after by collectors of equestrian art, Regency decoration, horse racing memorabilia...

Decorative antique engraving of a horse race by Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851 (Engraver). Originates from 'Sporting sketches: consisting of subjects relating to sports of. the whole...

Medium: etching (after the painting). This beautiful piece was etched by Auguste Lauzet after John Lewis Brown, and published in Paris in 1892 by Chamerot et Renouard, for the very r...

Art Sz: 9 1/4"H x 14"W Frame Sz: 17 1/4"H x 22"W