History of Leicestershire of the county council, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicester City FC and Leicestershire Scouts is the red fox. Leicestershire is considered to be the birthplace of fox hunting as it is known today. Hugo Meynell of Quorn, Master of the Quorn Hunt 1753–1800, is known as the father of fox hunting. Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough have associations with fox hunting, as has neighbouring Rutland. History of Leicestershire in 1807 , the first recorded use of the name was as "Laegrecastrescir". In the Anglo-Saxon period the area was originally in the territory of the Middle Angles and later Mercia. After
The Fox Hunt (painting) noted generally, and particularly in "The Fox Hunt", with the observation that the painting can be divided into three vertical panels, thereby creating "a perfect Japanese screen". "The Fox Hunt" was purchased from the artist in 1894 by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, after it was exhibited in the academy's annual show. The Fox Hunt (painting) The Fox Hunt is an 1893 oil on canvas painting by Winslow Homer. It depicts a fox running in deep snow, menaced by hungry crows. His largest single work, it has been described as "Homer's greatest Darwinian painting, arguably his greatest painting