Sportsman's hall [graphic]

Description

Title: Sportsman's hall [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fox-hunters relaxing
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
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
Description: 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.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss Collection; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 33 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1812
Etchings England London 1812
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dogs
French horns
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Hunting trophies
Riding habits
Subjects: Dogs
French horns
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Hunting trophies
Riding habits
England > 1812
England > London > 1812
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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