2-995-696 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Stockton-on-Tees Regatta Cup, 1860. 'The fashion of furnishing splendid vases for race plate is gradually extending, and our art manufacturers have "improved the occasion" by throwing as much fine work into the cups as possible. Each new production seems to outstrip the former, till we hope that in metal work our artists will rival those of the fifteenth century. The Cup we engrave, which was run for on Friday, the 31st [of August], has the speciality of being the first cup contended for at Stockton, and is, therefore, a novelty in its way. It has been designed by Mr. N. Roskell, a pupil of M. Vechte, and modelled by J. Barrett. The metal is silver, partly gilt; the form, an elegant oval, upon a raised open-work base; and it is, altogether, a very graceful object of art. It illustrates the "Fall of Phaeton" - two bassi-relievi on the body showing the fall of the rash charioteer and the discovery of his body. The handles are formed by figures of Phaeton's sisters being transformed into trees. There is a quiet tone and keeping in the work, and an elegance and repose in the form which promises very much for the young artist. Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, of New Bond-street, have produced this work'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.