On your wall
Archival print, framed and hung — a styled render, not the exact frame shipped.
Portraits, the Grand Match, and the Clubhouse Wall · The Grand Match
The Golfers — A Grand Match Played over St Andrews Links
Charles E. Wagstaff, aquatint after Charles Lees, 1850 · hand-coloured aquatint
What it is
Charles Wagstaff’s hand-coloured aquatint of 1850 after Charles Lees’ painting — a 65×94 cm sheet of the most famous match ever painted.
Why it matters
The painting hangs in Edinburgh; this is the print that actually hung in clubhouses, and Yale’s scan of it is one of the largest in the house.
What to notice
The engraver is named on equal terms with the painter, because in 1850 he was — reproduction was a craft with its own reputations.
The picture everyone knows is almost never the object everyone owned.
Provenance
- Maker
- Charles E. Wagstaff, aquatint after Charles Lees, 1850
- Era
- The Feather Ball (1700–1848)
- Chapter
- The Golden Age
- Medium
- hand-coloured aquatint
- Made
- 1850
- Figure
- Sir David Baird, Sir Ralph Anstruther, Major Playfair, John Campbell
- Course
- St Andrews (historical-document doctrine — the plate names its own ground)
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1985.36.678) · B1985.36.678
Publicity
Clear — a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Historical document
This is a period artefact that names its own ground. The place-name appears here as the historical record shows it — never as a house mark, a keyword, or an endorsement, and never pre-populated anywhere in this shop.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
