Horse Artwork

“Hold hard!” was the huntsman’s shout to the field to rein in, the moment the hounds were “at fault,” having lost the scent, and every rider had to stop before trampling the line they were trying to find. Found in Lyon, this English hunting print is after a painting by Sheldon Williams, a companion to “Killed in the Open” in the same frame. Prints like these were engraved by hand from the original paintings so the great hunting scenes could hang in country houses all over Victorian England, and this one catches the hunt at its tensest moment, hounds casting about with their noses to the ground while the riders wait. Sylvie hangs the pair side by side in a hallway, above a long bench where the boots come off.

 

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