Latest find: Full Cry Hand Colored Engraving 1883 C.R. Stock at Goodwill!

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Full Cry Hand Colored Engraving 1883 C.R. Stock Matted and Framed: A beautiful engraving from 1883. This is Full Cry.Engraved by C.R. Stock, from a painting by William Shayer. Published in London by O.P. McQueen. Measures 37 1/4 x 29. A really beautiful and bright colored engraving.

A similar lithograph is up for auction for about $300.00.

Value aside, in these big old mansions filled to the brim with old money I have often seen the hunt scenes. Why you ask? My thought is that these pictures of the English Fox Hunt hearken back to the days of hunting amongst the aristocracy. Think of “Downton Abbey” . It’s the life of the landed gentry with little to do – and so a “hunt” would be organized. Whether you come from that lineage or not – having the lithograph from 1883 by Stock who died in 1902 could mean that it’s been inherited.

The well appointed old money home is lousy with hallmarks from a bygone era. One of my favorite lines from the film, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is what the art collector, John Williams says when someone asks if his family has “always collected art” (a way of asking if he comes from Big Old Money) to which he replies:

“There’s only two things that interest me, work, and those trappings of aristocracy that I find worthwhile, the very things they’re forced to sell when the money runs out, and it always runs out. And then all they’re left with is their lovely manners!”

1  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) – Quotes- IMD[website], https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119668/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu, (accessed 08 September 2020).

We can chalk the latest find to one of those things although more likely this print came from the estate of someone’s heir who deposited it into the charity bin without regard to its value or worth.

One man’s trash is our treasure here! So happy.

Here’s a good idea of where to place it in your home. Notice the sideboard. I have a bid on the Waldorf Hotel Auction (I mentioned in last post) on a console which would do nicely. Sadly I lost the settee to someone with deeper pockets.