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Our Amateur Steeplechase Meeting - a 115 year old cartoon from an original by the famous caricaturist Phil May (British 1864-1903). Published by Punch in April 1901 the cartoon (which is attributed within the image) is guaranteed to be original and not a later reproduction.

Punch was a weekly satirical magazine published between the mid 19th and 20th centuries which was also known as the London Charivari. The cartoon reflects on the 63rd Grand National which was run on 29th March 1901, in a howling snowstorm. Most of the horses were slithering about in the snow, but the trainer of the winning horse Grudon hit on the idea of packing the horse's hooves with butter in the hope that it would stop the snow from clogging them. It worked and the un-fancied Grudon won (at 9/1). Grudon's jockey reported that he allowed the horse to run its own race, which it did near perfectly, except for a shock 200 yards from the finish when Grudon mistook a footpath across the track for a fence and jumped it, nearly unseating his rider. 

The text on this cartoon reads:


OUR AMATEUR STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

“THEY’RE OFF!”


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Clarification of the terms 'original print' and 'signed': 

Punch cartoons were originally drawn on tracing paper and subsequently cut onto a printing plate. An original print is a print made directly from an artist's own woodcut, etching, or other original production, and printed under the artist's supervision. An original print is such irrespective of its intended purpose (high end art to be mounted and framed, or a newspaper illustration). A print taken from a print should not be described as an original print. The process of producing a plate print would, by necessity, mean the destruction of the original piece of art (the drawing). If a non limited edition print is described as signed (or attributed) this will mean that the signature is within the image as part of the print, the print was not signed individually by the artist. 


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