Hounds throwing-off [graphic]

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Title: Hounds throwing-off [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [8 April 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, London
Abstract: "Three riders are being violently thrown off their horses, in grotesque attitudes, by the hounds who have caused two horses to fall and the third to rear."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north.
One of a set of four plates on huntsmens' skills.
Temporary local subject terms: Horsemanship -- Huntsmen -- Hounds.
Window mounted to 32 x 43 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 35.0 cm, on sheet 29 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Aquatints England London 1800
Artists' devices
Material: etching, soft ground etching & aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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