Coaching Incident: A Royal Mail Coach Interrupting a Fox Chase (Primary Title)
Coaching Incident: Royal Mail Coach Interrupting a Fox Chase (Former Title)

James Pollard, English, 1792 - 1867 (Artist)

1843
English
oil on panel
Framed: 12 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (32.7 × 40.32 cm)
Unframed: 8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (21.59 × 29.85 cm)
99.86
Pollard captures the excitement of coaching in this pair of paintings, one humorous and the other poignant. In the first, the Royal Mail Coach barrels through a foxhunt, allowing the fox a temporary escape. In the second scene, Pollard anticipates the inevitable demise of the Mail Coach; here a railway train, capable of traveling up to forty miles per hour, easily overtakes the coach, with a top speed of only ten.
Not signed.
Paul Mellon Collection
2018-2019: "A Sporting Vision: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art from the VMFA", National Sporting Museum & Library, Middleburg, VA, April 13 - July 22, 2018; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, June 15 - September 8, 2019
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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