This work on paper, possibly a preparatory drawing for a later painting, shows a self-portrait of the artist (facing uphill), with the 9^th Earl of Harrington (in the foreground), during a hunt at Horsley Carrs – a hilly area near the village of Horsley in Derbyshire.

Dudley Henry Eden Stanhope, 9th Earl of Harrington (13 January 1859 – 13 November 1928), was a British peer and the son of Charles Stanhope, 7th Earl of Harrington, and Elizabeth Still de Pearsall. He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his childless brother Charles on 5 February 1917 and lived at Elvaston Castle - a grand country mansion designed in the Gothic Revival style, situated in Elvaston, Derbyshire.

Historically, the Earls of Harrington maintained their own foxhounds (often known as the Harrington Hunt) based in the midlands of England, drawing on the hunting country of the Quorn and Belvoir estates.

The 8th Earl of Harrington, Charles Stanhope (the current subject’s brother) was particularly well known in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a master of foxhounds and a pioneering figure in the development of modern polo rules in England.