Antique Framed Print “Bachelor’s Hall Plate 1” by F C Turner – early 1900s

This hand-colored aquatint engraving print is one of 6 images that were painted by English artist Francis Calcraft Turner in the early 1800s, meant to be a humorous portrayal of bachelor fox hunters – “To Bachelor’s Hall We Good Fellows Ride”. F C Turner was a Georgian-era artist who specialized in outdoor scenes and his prints were finely detailed; of special interest were the Aylesbury fox hunting/ steeplechase scenes, which are very similar to the Bachelor Hall series. This print includes the hunting prose of Charles Dibdin, who was an English composer and musician (1745-1814) and was in his time a most prolific song writer and performer:“To Bachelor’s Hall we good fellows inviteTo partake of the chase that makes up our delightWe have spirits of fire, and of health such a stockThat our pulse strikes the seconds as true as a clockDid you see us you’d swear, as we mount with a graceThat Diana had dubbed some new gods of the chaseHark away, hark awayAll nature looks gayAnd Aurora with smiles ushers in the bright day”.Presented under glass with a black frame with back wire hanger, very good antique condition, Measures 17 x 20 inches.