Historical Sports Illustrations

Vintage sketches depicting various sports like horse racing and skating, highlighting historical athleticism and the evolution of sports.

Out of Bounds - Putting Ball into Play - American Football, circa 1887

Scenes from a steeplechase: Near the Finish, Henry Thomas Alken, 1785-1851, British, ca. 1845, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm), animals, crowd, equestrians, hedge, horse racing, horse racing, horse riding, horses (animals), horses (animals), hurdle, jockeys, landscape, men, people, race (event), racetrack, spectators, sporting art, top hats

Illustration depicting a game of billiards. Dated 19th century

Edward Lagarde (American, 19th Century) after Winslow Homer, Snap-the-Whip, active c. 1873, published 1873, wood engraving on newsprint

Das Fest des Grasausläuten in Tirol, Grasausläuten werden als Brauchtum betriebene Lärmumzüge mit Glocken, Schellen und Peitschenknallen in der Zeit d...

The bull's drag, Anonymous, 1880 - 1910 print This photo is part of an album. paper Bullfight

Men fencing. Engraving by Crispiaen van den Queborne.

Central Park, Winter The skating pond .

Leaping Catch on the Baseball Diamond, Baseball

. A winter landscape with a scared river with skaters. In the foreground two men that have dropped through the ice. They are taken out of the water with a ladder.

Youths playing Bumble Puppy, or Nine Holes near the Templa of Vesta, Rome, Italy. To set up the game, the young men cut nine holes in the turf large enough to take the ball. Money is staked and if a player does not pitch the ball into a hole, he loses his stake. When a player pitches the ball into the centre hole, he takes all the money staked and a new game is begun. Hand coloured lithograph from Italian Scenery, Manners and Customs by Buon Airetti (London, 1806).

Illustration showing a bobsleigh 'punting' race held on a 'bandy' rink (a form of ice hockey) at St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1909. Date: 06/02/1909

James David Smillie, Rough Sport in the Yosemite, 1886 Rough Sport in the Yosemite

Shooting exercises of young people; Iuventutis Exercitia; India Occidentalis II. A group of young Indians makes shooting exercises with arrow and bow and practice throwing balls. They practice on the shore of a river. Canoes on the river.

American sports. The regattas, vintage engraving. American sports. The regattas, vintage engraved illustration. Journal American sports. The regattas, vintage engraving. American sports. The regattas, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. LicenseRF 10657091 Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657091 Copyright: xIMAGO/Zoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 1042864419st

Scene from everyday life in England around 1810, jockeys on their horses in front of the gallop race, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, date unknown

A village cricket match. Date: 1853

Skaters and Kolf-Players on the ICE. Skaters on the ice; On the left a man who pushes a sled, on the right a kolf player.

Doncaster Race for the Great St Legder Stakes, famous horse race in England, 1839, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Engraving of the Football Association Cup Final between Blackburn Rovers and Notts County, played at the Kennington Oval, London, on 21st March 1891. The game was won by Blackburn Rovers 3-1. Date: 1891

Runners on the track Date: 1924

European medieval history. Tournament. Two contenders on horseback figthing with lances. Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), volume III, 1882.

Color print by Ludwig Koch depicting a Trab race, created in 1913, showing racehorses in motion and racetrack details.

Football match between Italy and Hungary at the Arena in Milan, Italy, illustration by Luigi Bompard from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 3, January 15, 1911.

1870S 1879 Football Match Between Yale And Princeton Ivy League Rivalry Illustration By A. B. Frost

Counted out, second stone , Boxing, Boxers Sports, Sports spectators, Losers. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB CHANNEL MATCH, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Young Spartans exercising, 1860-1862, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917).

Ball Play On The Ice(from "The American Aboriginal Portfolio" by Mary Eastman) 1853 Seth Eastman (1808-1878 American) Newberry Library, Chicago

French sailors at a Spanish bullfight. 1899

Epsom Races: The Betting Post, James Pollard, 1792-1867, British, 1834 to 1835, Oil on canvas, Support (PTG): 12 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (30.8 x 47.3 cm), carriage, costume, equestrian, horse (animal), landscape, race (event), racecourse, rural, spectators, sporting art, vehicle, Victorian, whip, England, Epsom, Europe, Surrey, United Kingdom

Deer-stalking in the Adirondacks in winter , Snowshoeing, Hunting

Jesus did it by faith alone, but the rest of us need these 'sea-boots' if we wish to walk on water. Sounds fun : why didn't the idea catch on Date: 1895

Fencing, combat training, training of the fighters, fencing training with the long sword, 1570, ca. 1885, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original.

'Cricket Match Between Nottingham and Leicester, c.1829', (1947). Teams from Nottingham and Leicester competing. In the foreground is a refreshment stall. From "English Cricket", by Neville Cardus. Collins, London, 1947

An international football match at Sheffield, 1883. Scotland defeated England with three goals to two. 1883

A man is skating on a frozen lake with a large cage around his waist down to the ground. Wood engraving.

Children's Games, Pieter van der Borcht (I), 1593 - 1608 print In an open field, monkeys are exercising and playing. We see young monkeys bowling, hoops, marbles, tree climbing, hobby horse driving, golfing, stelt, spin, boxing, archery and much more. With caption of two lines in Latin. Antwerp (possibly) paper etching 'mundus inversus', the reversed world, the topsy-turvy world, 'le monde bestourné'. monkeys, apes. children's games and plays

Women's fencing school in Vienna, historical illustration, circa 1886

Dash for the pole, Horses - Riding & Racing

Pigs playing tennis. Date: 1904

A boxer representing St. Stephen's Review has knocked out his opponent who is representing the Hansard Union. Lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 February 1891.

Unknown, In-Door Skating at the St. Nicholas Rink, 1901, photogravure on paper.

Study sheet with skating couples ..

Activities in progress at a German medieval athletics contest include wrestling and stone throwing. Date: 16th century

Image of the gymnastics and athletics demonstrations on the municipal sports grounds on the Thorbeckelaan in Utrecht on the occasion of the 25-year anniversary of Queen Wilhelmina.

Horse Sled Race, Currier, Nathaniel & Ives, Jam.

The new gymnasium in Utrecht opened

The Lawn Tennis Championship Meeting at Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XXIV, no 610, August 6, 1881. Digitally colorized image.

1860s THE CELEBRATED HORSE DEXTER KING OF THE TURF - GREAT HORSE RACE MATCH AGAINST TIME - CURRIER AND IVES LITHOGRAPH -1865

Curling at Carsebreck. Date/Period: 1899. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 756 mm (29.76 in); Width: 1,219 mm (47.99 in). Author: Charles Martin Hardie.

Skating woman. A woman skates over the ice, her skirts fluttering in the wind. In hand she has a sleeve. Behind her a skater and a few figures at a wake.

Baseball.. Proofs, Cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Baseball, Sports

At last, Conkling does make the 'greatest effort of his life,' , Chasing, Running, Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888

Winter sports by Moravov, Alexander Viktorovich (1878-1951)/ Regional Art Museum, Sumy/ 1913/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting, End of 19th - Early 20th cen./ 79,6x71,4/ Genre

Paul Masson, winner of a cycling event at the Olympic Games, Athens, 1896. Artist: Unknown

Doncaster Race for the Great St Legder Stakes, famous horse race in England, 1839, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century.

The Shooting Drag, Life of a Sportsman

The skating rider.

John Lavery / 'The Tennis Game', 1885, Oil on canvas, 77 x 183 cm. Museum: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK.

Athletic, from the Sports and Art Subjects series (N197) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co. ca. 1889 Issued by William S. Kimball & Company Trade cards from the "Sports and Art Subjects" series (N197), issued ca. 1889 by Wm. S. Kimball & Co. to promote Straight Cut Cigarettes.. Athletic, from the Sports and Art Subjects series (N197) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.. ca. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by William S. Kimball & Company

Japanese hand coloured woodcut shows an English game of polo taken place, Japanese spectators are shown observing the foreign game from the side. C1860

Two Zulu Men in Fencing Game, Africa, Illustration, 1885

Skating and sledging in China. Date: 1896

Man Rowing, England, "Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers", by Marshall M. Kirman, World Railway Publ. Co., Illustration, 1895

An American Ice Rink 1860's Charles F. Jones (19th C. American)

Great field in a grand rush, Horses - Riding & Racing

sports winter sports skiing Nordic ski Sami people on ski after former image drawing 18th century,

Follow my Leader, Life of a Sportsman

Running man with a rope.

An advertisement depicting a horse race, spectators and stands.. Trade cards. 1876 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Horse racing, Spectators

Crew Race Between Oxford and Harvard.

El Cachetero, Anonymous, 1880 - 1910 print This photo is part of an album. paper Bullfight

A Meet with his grace the Duke of Rutland, Life of a Sportsman

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