Sportsman's hall [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.

Published/Created:

[London]
[publisher not identified]
[1812]

Copyright Date:

[1812]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 33 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
A seemingly reversed version of the same design is given the title "Fox-hunters relaxing" by Grego. See: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, pages 279, 281.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss Collection; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-14-167.

Abstract:

A scene in a hunting lodge with tired hunters are relaxing on comfortable chairs and sofas, surrounded by their hunting dogs. A woman in a riding habit blows a French horn as one of the huntsman grasps her around the waist. On the wall are a hunting trophy (stag), a painting of a hunt in progress, and three rifles.

Variant Titles:

Fox-hunters relaxing

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Dogs
French horns
Harvey, Francis
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Hunting trophies
Riding habits
Riviere & Son

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1812
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1812

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

812.00.00.56+

Orbis Record:

8162272

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11569

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10967620

PID:

digcoll:974293