[Alken, Samuel Henry Gordon (1810-1894)]. The Race and the Road Epsom. London: Ackermann, 1851. A hand-coloured etched continuous strip panorama in eight sections (115 x 2388mm. overall), unsigned. (Small unimportant area of loss [5 x 5mm] to scene outside the Spread Eagle Inn.) Folding into original cloth binding with hand-coloured etched title label pasted onto upper cover (cover soiled).
[Alken, Samuel Henry Gordon (1810-1894)]. The Race and the Road Epsom. London: Ackermann, 1851. A hand-coloured etched continuous strip panorama in eight sections (115 x 2388mm. overall), unsigned. (Small unimportant area of loss [5 x 5mm] to scene outside the Spread Eagle Inn.) Folding into original cloth binding with hand-coloured etched title label pasted onto upper cover (cover soiled).

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[Alken, Samuel Henry Gordon (1810-1894)]. The Race and the Road Epsom. London: Ackermann, 1851. A hand-coloured etched continuous strip panorama in eight sections (115 x 2388mm. overall), unsigned. (Small unimportant area of loss [5 x 5mm] to scene outside the Spread Eagle Inn.) Folding into original cloth binding with hand-coloured etched title label pasted onto upper cover (cover soiled).

RARE PANORAMA showing the multitude of coaches, horses and top-hatted race-goers raising clouds of dust on the approach to Epsom race course. AE records only one sale in 2007. Abbey Life 596 (suggesting that the work is in the style of Leech); Mellon/Snelgrove 65.

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