Roman Carnival Horse Race & Festive Corso - 1820 Etching

Antique print titled 'Équitation Francaise 1834 (.) Course au Clocher (.)'. Original lithograph of a horse race. Published by Ch. Motte, circa 1830.

Title: Pas d’Armes Jousting Scene with French and English Knights, circa 1390 Description: This richly hand-colored lithograph vividly illustrates a historical jousting encounter kn...

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 The dramatic sky and broad racing field add depth and atmosphere to the composition, making it both a fascinating historical document and a visually striking decorative artwork.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...

Horse Race (original title: "La Corsa dei Cavalli") is a beautiful etching and hand-colored gouache, finely engraved on copper and printed on laid paper. The work, which presents a r...

Corsa dei Cavalli (Horse Race) is a beautiful etching on copper, printed on laid paper, hand-colored brightly with gouache. The artwork is unsigned, but it is part of the 20 plates ...

Etching hand colored realized in 1818 after an earlier illustration of 1730 by Franéois Robichon de la Guérinière.  It depicts riders practicing jousting at a ring and a dummy head....

English Victorian Lithograph of an Equestrian Scene depicting two competing horses in a maple and gilt frame Good condition consistent with age and use