Tarka. (Harcourt Gilbey Gold)

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  SKU: 12171

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• PUBLISHER: Published by Vanity Fair, London.

• MEDIUM: Chromolithograph,

  DATE: March 23, 1899.

• EDITION SIZE: 13 3/4 x 7 1/2" plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: An image of Mr. Harcourt Gilbey Gold 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> The President of the Oxford University Boat Club, who hopes to stroke his fourth ‘Varsity Eight to victory on Saturday, became the fourth (and last) son of Mr. Henry Gold, of Hedsor, in Bucks, three-and-twenty years ago. Having acquired the name of “Tarka” in the nursery when his own name was too big for him, he went to Eton; where he is still remembered in “Hoppy’s” House. He took to the oar so well that for three successive years he stroked the Eton Eight to victory in the Race for the Ladies’ Plate at Henley; and his memory is so strong that Eton has gone on winning that Plate ever since. So he was made Captain of the Boats -- after he had got his Field Colours for football; and, accordingly, like so many good Eton oars, went to Oxford, to provide Magdalene College with a credit to the Isis. He was made stroke of the ‘Varsity Eight right off; and in his first race he cut Cambridge down almost on the post, winning after a desperate struggle. In 1897 he stroked one of the best Oxford Eights ever sent out, and won again; and last year he was able to watch Cambridge rowing after him to the Ship. Besides this, he stroked Leander at Henley in 1896, when he won the Grand Challenge and defeated Yale; and, though New College just beat him the year after, he won the same race at last year’s Regatta; while in two of three years he also stroked the Leander Four to victory in the race for the Stewards’ Cup. Yet with all these and other triumphs he has never won a race at Eton or Oxford with the single exception of the ‘Varsity Pairs in 1897

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• CONDITION: Good condition save for minor offsetting behind his head.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Portraits - Vanity Fair , Rowers