After James Pollard, St Albans Grand Steeple Chase, 1832, a Pair

James Pollard (1792-1867), son of the engraver Robert Pollard, painted coaching, hunting and racing scenes, many of them published as aquatints. The St Albans Grand Steeple Chase was run on 8 March 1832, in the first years of organised steeplechasing. Pollard's views of the race were published by J. Moore in 1832 as a set of six aquatints, engraved by Henry Pyall, Charles Bentley and Charles and George Hunt.

Plate 2, First Leap, shows the field streaming across ploughland while the leaders take a hedged ditch. The caption records Lucifer, ridden by Captain Horne, taking the lead, and Captain Forbes thrown from Zanga at the gate. Plate 4, Struggle at the Bank, shows riders scrambling over a steep wooded bank, several of them unhorsed, with Sir William Geary's Arab in front.

A pair of 20th-century colour reproductions, with the original lettering reset in type: ‘Painted by J. Pollard.’, ‘Engd by H. Pyall.’, the title, the date and each plate's caption. Each is window-mounted and framed to match in a narrow gilt moulding.