Price: $175.00
SKU: 11889
PUBLISHER: Vanity Fair, London.
MEDIUM: Chromolithograph,
DATE: March 21, 1891.
EDITION SIZE: 12 3/4 x 7 1/2" plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: An image of Lord Ampthill after a drawing by Spy. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. One of a fine group of twenty-two portraits of prominent scullers produced by Vanity Fair.<br><br> He is a very tall, very agreeable, and good-looking young man, with a long, strong back, which is worth much in a boat.<br><br> Naturally he went to Eton, where he became Captain of the Boats, President of “Pop,” and President of the Literary Society. He was also second Oppidan in the School, but failed to rise above mediocrity in any physical line save rowing. From Eton he went to New College, and to-day he will row his third University Boat Race; having been once beaten by Cambridge and having once succeeded in defeating them by a few yards after the best race on record since the Dead Heat of 1877. He has often been beaten at Henley; but last year, in the stout companionship of Mr. Guy Nickalls, he won the Silver Goblets; and he has occasionally won other races. At Oxford he has begun his school career over again, having been chosen President of the University Boat Club and of the Union Society; for which last office he beat an Archbishop’s son by six votes.
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CONDITION: Good condition and color.
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