Equestrian Artwork

“Killed in the Open” is the hunting term for the moment the hounds catch their fox in open country rather than in cover, the finish every rider in a red coat galloped after. Found in Lyon, this English print was engraved by Edward Gilbert Hester after a painting by Sheldon Williams, dated 1869 in the corner of the picture. Victorian engravers like Hester spent weeks cutting a painting into a copper plate line by line so it could be printed and hung in country houses across England, and fox hunting scenes were among the most beloved subjects of all. Sylvie hangs it in a study above a leather armchair, where the hounds seem to run straight out of the frame.

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