The leaders draw clear down the St Leger straight at Doncaster while the crowd rises along the rail. Start and Finish were sold as a pair, book-ending the race for a buyer who wanted the whole story hung on one wall. the gap already opened between the front two horses and the rest of the field. The crowd only rises for the last hundred yards.

Maker: Henry Thomas Alken, hand-coloured aquatint
Date: c.1830s
Medium of the original: Aquatint
Original held by: Private collection
Credit: Private collection
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00096

As chosen: 18 x 12 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 12 in
Outside size	19.6 x 13.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	246	Excellent	Trimmed 5.8%
14 x 11 in	190	Good	Trimmed 9.9%
16 x 12 in	174	Good	Trimmed 5.7%
18 x 12 in	164	Good	Trimmed 5.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 16 in	123 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 18 in	116 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 20 in	98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
36 x 24 in	82 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 30 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	58 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 2,955 x 2,091 px, srgb, sRGB
Tone: Darks 26, lights 203 of 255; 0.8% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 4.33