The Brighton Day Mails, passing over Hookwood Common

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Charles Hunt I was an aquatint engraver. He is best known for his engravings after the works of sporting artists, although his subjects also included transport, animal and topographical scenes. Although Hunt’s aquatints were generally made after the designs of his contemporaries, he sometimes made prints after his own designs. He was the father of Charles Hunt II, also an aquatint engraver of sporting subjects, and is thought to have been the brother of engraver George Hunt, with whom he collaborated early in his career. J. B. Hunt, who engraved a portrait of the trainer John Scott from a design by Harry Hall, published in the 1850s, may be another relative.

Places

England, Surrey

Subjects

carriage, coach, topography, horse, man, top hat, Royal Mail

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

William Joseph Shayer (1811 - 1892)
Charles, I Hunt (1803 - 1877)

Title

The Brighton Day Mails, passing over Hookwood Common

Date

published 20 May 1867

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Presented by Fores Ltd, March 1979

GAC number

14595