Sportsman's hall [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.

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Title: Sportsman's hall [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
Alternative Title: Fox-hunters relaxing
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Published / Created: 1812
Copyright Date: [1812]
Publication Place: [London]
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: 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.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25 x 33 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1812.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1812.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic): Dogs.
French horns.
Hunting dogs.
Hunting trophies.
Hunting.
Riding habits.

Access: Public
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