Race Collection (page 8)

New Race-Course and Hippodrome, at Longchamps, 1854. Creator: Unknown
New Race-Course and Hippodrome, at Longchamps, 1854. The Emperor of France...caused to be laid out an immense Race-course and Hippodrome - one at least of the largest, if not the largest

New South Wales Regatta Plate, 1854. Creator: Unknown
New South Wales Regatta Plate, 1854. This very elegant Plate Prize, has been designed and executed by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell...Surmounting the cover is a group

At the Auteuil races (the Draggs), 1907. Creator: Unknown
At the Auteuil races (the Draggs), 1907

The Thames National Regatta Prize, 1854. Creator: Unknown
The Thames National Regatta Prize, 1854. Rowing prizes. Above all towers the Grand Challenge Cup, for eight-oared boats (gentlemen amateurs) - a fine silver-gilt piece of plate

End of race in Auteuil, c1888 — 1898. Creator: Alfred H Smith
End of race in Auteuil, c1888 -- 1898

Race at the Champ-de-Mars, around 1825. Creator: M Mills
Race at the Champ-de-Mars, around 1825

The Regatta, at Montreal, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Regatta, at Montreal, 1850....the citizens of Montreal [in Canada, decided on] the necessity of preparing a suitable display of Canadian industry

Asakusa Festival (Asakusa matsuri), from the illustrated book "Picture Book of Amusements... c1802
Asakusa Festival (Asakusa matsuri), from the illustrated book "Picture Book of Amusements of the East (Ehon Azuma asobi)", Japan, c. 1802

Asakusa Festival (Asakusa matsuri), from the illustrated book "Picture Book of Amusements... c1802
Asakusa Festival (Asakusa matsuri), from the illustrated book "Picture Book of Amusements of the East (Ehon Azuma asobi)", Japan, c. 1802

Villiers Cinema, 1918. Creator: Clérice Frères (active 1890s-1910s)
Villiers Cinema, 1918. Private Collection

Villiers Cinema, 1918. Creator: Clérice Frères (active 1890s-1910s)
Villiers Cinema, 1918. Private Collection

Sports on the Ice - Skating Race on Whittlesea Mere, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Sports on the Ice - Skating Race on Whittlesea Mere, 1850. We recommend frozen-out lovers of hunting, coursing, and horseracing, during this frost, to take a trip to Peterborough

Goodwood Races, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Goodwood Races, 1850. Horseracing at Goodwood Racecourse near Chichester, West Sussex. The Grandstand, with its saloons, banquet-halls, terraces, and parterres "lying in a pleasant shade

The Winner, 1898. Creator: Félix Vallotton
The Winner, 1898

Bicycle, c. 1894. Creator: Edouard Vuillard
Bicycle, c. 1894

Ships Boat-Race at Cherbourg, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Ships Boat-Race at Cherbourg, 1850. Naval review and regatta on the French coast....multitudes assembled on the piers, wharfs, roofs, and shores

Doncaster Race-Course, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Doncaster Race-Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. The influx [of spectators] was continuous and immense, and we venture to say that what Doncaster has lost in the grade of its supporters was

Doncaster Races - the Dead-Heat for the St. Leger Stakes... 1850. Creator: Unknown
Doncaster Races - the Dead-Heat for the St. Leger Stakes, between "Voltigeur" and "Russborough" - "Bolingbroke" third, 1850

Epsom - the Race for "The Derby Stakes", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Epsom - the Race for "The Derby Stakes", 1850. Horse racing at Epsom in Surrey. Penang and Deicoon got away together, and, with the Nigger, Mildew, the Swede, and Ghillie Callum laid up

Sketch in the Ring - "I'll Bet Against Clincher", 1850. Creator: John Leech
Sketch in the Ring - "I'll Bet Against Clincher", 1850. Turf accountant William Davies at the Epsom horse races:..the reader will recognise a well-known member of the ring

Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Creator: Edmund Evans
Doncaster Races - the Road to the Course, 1850. Horse racing in Yorkshire. The Meeting attracted an immense and very respectable assemblage

School Fete at Codrington College, Barbadoes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
School Fete at Codrington College, Barbadoes, 1850. Caribbean schoolchildren at...the oldest of our Colonial Colleges...particularly interesting from its position amongst a large Negro population

Nimroud Sculptures...Flight of an Arab Mounted upon a Camel, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Nimroud Sculptures, just received at the British Museum - Flight of an Arab Mounted upon a Camel, 1850. Engraving of...a fine, though unfortunately broken slab

Epsom Spring Meeting...Preparing to Start for the Great Metropolitan Stakes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Epsom Spring Meeting - Sketch on the Downs - Preparing to Start for the Great Metropolitan Stakes, 1850. Horseracing in Surrey

Election Saturday at Eton - Regatta and Fireworks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Election Saturday at Eton - Regatta and Fireworks, 1850. View of firework display on the River Thames in Berkshire:..the brilliant finale to the Election Saturday Regatta at Eton, on July 27'

Chariot Race in the Circus Maximus - Rome, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Chariot Race in the Circus Maximus - Rome, 1850....the Circus Maximus....originally founded in the infancy of Rome by Tarquin the Elder, became

The Winning Post, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
The Winning Post, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830

Climax of Disaster, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
Climax of Disaster, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830

Dick Christian's Last Fall, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
Dick Christian's Last Fall, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830

A Rich Scene, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
A Rich Scene, from Grand Leicestershire Steeplechase, published 1830

The Field becomes Select, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
The Field becomes Select, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830

Symptoms of Distress, from The Grand Steeplechase Over Leicestershire, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
Symptoms of Distress, from The Grand Steeplechase Over Leicestershire, published 1830

Going the Pace, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830. Creator: Charles Bentley
Going the Pace, from The Grand Steeplechase over Leicestershire, published 1830

The Lowestoft Regatta - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Lowestoft Regatta, [Suffolk] - drawn by Duncan, 1850....not less than some fifteen thousand persons, or about four times the numerical amount of the resident population, assembled

Epsom Spring Meeting - Great Metropolitan Steeple-Chase: the Jump at the Brook, 1850. Creator: Smyth
Epsom Spring Meeting - Great Metropolitan Steeple-Chase: the Jump at the Brook, 1850. Horseracing on Epsom Common in Surrey

Wanota, Winner of the Ascot Stakes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Wanota, Winner of the Ascot Stakes, 1850. Racehorse owned by Lord Clifden and ridden by Job Marson. The Ascot Stakes - a sporting handicap, won by Wanota - was, probably, a race thrown away

Mr. Bowen and Mr. Delezene with racing sled in an All Alaska Sweepstakes, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Mr. Bowen and Mr. Delezene with racing sled in an All Alaska Sweepstakes, between c1900 and 1927

Chariot race at 4th of July celebration, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Chariot race at 4th of July celebration, between c1900 and c1930

Hose team The champion Chinese Hose Team of America, who won the great Hub-and-Hub... 1888. Creator: John C. H. Grabill
Hose team. The champion Chinese Hose Team of America, who won the great Hub-and-Hub race at Deadwood, Dak. July 4th, 1888 []. Twelve member team of Chinese "hose" runners posed in uniform

View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand...the race of the Maori war-canoes, 1862. Creator: Unknown
View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, from a drawing by Major Stack, taken during the regatta of January, 1862: the race of the Maori war-canoes, 1862

The annual regatta of the Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, recently held at Glasgow, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The annual regatta of the Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, recently held at Glasgow, 1862. This regatta - the "Scottish Henley" - which came off at Glasgow, on Thursday and Friday

The new racecourse at Fontainebleau, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The new racecourse at Fontainebleau, [France], 1862. The new racecourse...is most picturesquely situated in the Valley de la Solle

Volunteer games at Liverpool, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Volunteer games at Liverpool, 1862. A grand Festival...[was held] by the Liverpool Athletic Club at the Mount Vernon Parade-ground, on which occasion the champion's gold enamel medal

The Volunteer Field-Day at Brighton: arrival of volunteers on the racecourse, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Volunteer Field-Day at Brighton: arrival of volunteers on the racecourse, 1862. Nothing could be finer than the approach of something like 12, 000 men in close column, at quick march

Sailing yachts cross start line. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Sailing yachts cross start line

A group onboard sea sled Miss England, 1922. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Claude Grahame-White in his experimental 45-foot power sledge, Miss England, 3 Sept 1922. Miss England was built of wood by the Cowes firm of S.E. Saunders in 1921

The cutter Shamrock beating to windward. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The cutter Shamrock beating to windward. Shamrock, designed by William Fife, was Sir Thomas Liptons first (1899) challenger to the Americas Cup

The 147 ton ketch Thendara sailing upwind. 1939. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
The 147 ton ketch Thendara sailing upwind. 1939. Thendara was designed by Alfred Mylne for the Scottish yachtsman Sir Arthur Young. She was launched in 1937 and is still racing today

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