A society of distinguished painters who hunt with fox hounds, live splendidly and only paint at night [graphic]

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Title: A society of distinguished painters who hunt with fox hounds, live splendidly and only paint at night [graphic]
Alternative Title: Spree at Melton Mowbray : larking at the Grantham toll-gate, or coming in for the brush
Creator: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker
Contributor: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1837]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published July 1st, 1837, by R. Ackermann at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent St.
Description: Title from caption below image.
Two lines of verse below title: They left no man's sign, name, or calling, untouched, by something most appalling.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides and text in upper right margin erased from sheet.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii, p. 15.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 30.2 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1837
Aquatints England London 1837
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1837
England > London > 1837

Access: Public
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