Sports Prints: Sailing America’s Cup & More!

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Sporting Prints, Engravings & Lithographs Sailing

Our antique engravings & lithographs of sports subjects come from early Illustrated Newspapers, including Harper’s Weekly and other sources. Our antique sport prints are authentic, guaranteed to be more than 100 years old. Inexpensive, decorative and historic, pieces from over 100 years ago. $125-$225 each. oldprint@verizon.net.

A Regatta - Rounding the Light-Ship, July 30, 1881.
The First Race for the "America's" Cup, September 7 - The "Mayflower" Crossing the Line a Winner, September 18, 1886.
The Sloop Yachts "Puritan" and "Priscilla" of Boston and New York, August 29, 1885.
The Steam Yacht "Stilletto," With a Record of Twenty-Nine Miles in One Hour and Seventeen Minutes, June 20, 1885.
The Race Between Pilot-Boat "Hesper" and Fishing Schooner "Fredonia," Off Boston Harbor, October 5, 1889.
The Trial Yacht Races - "Changing the Topsails." September 4, 1886.
Exciting Movements in the Third and Decisive Race fire the America's Cup, November 4, 1899.
Saturday Afternoon on the Harlem River, June 28, 1879.
The British Cutter Yacht "Genesta," Challenger for the "America's" Cup, June 13, 1885.
The June Races of the New York and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs, 1889.
The "Livonia" and Yachting-At the Helm, July 15, 1871.
The Yacht Race - A Sketch from the Deck of a Competing Yacht, August 10, 1872.
Yacht Club Houses, May 14, 1887.
Racing Sloop Yachts Shortening Before A Squall, September 3, 1887.
The Coming Anglo-American Yacht-Race: Arrival of the "Shamrock in New York Harbour, September 9,1899.
The Contest for Yachting Honors, 1899.
Harper's Weekly front page, Captain Lattamore, December, 9, 1893.
The Shamrock II in American Waters, c.1900.
Watching the Yacht-Race, 1897.
Aboard the Cup-Defender "Columbia": Drilling the Crew- Taking in the Spinnaker, Showing How the Hatches Are Used to Stow Away Sail, c.1900.
Captain Haff Drilling the Crew for the "Defender" On Board the "Colonia." c.1900.
The Coming Contest for the America's Cup, 1895.
America's Cup Defender, the "Columbia," October 21, 1899.
The great Yacht Contest - A Close Race to the First Mark in Windward, 1901.

Sports Prints of Sailing & America’s Cup, drove newspaper subsciptions.

These antique prints are very old engravings and lithographs pertaining to sailing and America’s Cup Racing, which was hosted in Newport RI for decades. Our newspaper records, were produced close to or over 100 years ago, depicting events at the times they were happening. 

Some of the antique sports prints come from early magazines. Others were elaborate, pleasing to the eye, decorative illustrations for newspapers. These specifically printed at one time, to document the event. Early newspapers of the 1800’s, such as Harper’s Weekly & Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Decorative, exciting sports prints, sold more subsciptions to early American followers of: America’s Cup Sailing. Many are boxwood engravings that were easily engraved with burins and printed in black over 100 years ago… Around 1895 the change of to photographically printed, and are called halftones.

Sports Prints: Crew & Sculling

Sports… CREW! Sculling… Great old crew prints! Great old crew print Outstanding wood engravings from 19th Century illustrated newspapers 22×34″ $200. each. Click here to contact us.

6872 Great old crew print 22x34"
Great old crew print 22x34"
Great old crew print 22x34"