Athletics. Running Cross-country, Hare and Hounds reproduction print

by Berkeley, Stanley

Athletics print. Hare and Hounds cross-country running.

Thames Hare and Hounds is the oldest adult cross-country running club in the world. Based on the Roehampton end of Wimbledon Common, adjacent to Richmond Park. Most of its runners are from south-west London.  Probably the best-known though is the Cambridge University Hare and Hounds. In Queensland, just north of Brisbane in Australia, one of the best cross-country runs is the Glasshouse Trail Series which begins with Hare and Hounds and finishes in the Woodford Pool!

Reproduction printed from a hand-coloured wood engraving by Stanley Berkeley R.E., (1853-1909) (Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers) for The Badminton Library series on Athletics published in London circa 1887 by Longmans, Green & Company. 

Size of print is 15 x 21cm (6 x 8.5 inches).