Hounds in full-cry [graphic] / B. [compass pointing to the north] Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.

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Title: Hounds in full-cry [graphic] / B. [compass pointing to the north] Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.
Published / Created: 1800 April 8
Copyright Date: [8 April 1800]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "A rider leans back in the saddle tugging hard at his rein; he is riding over the hounds which are yelping and squealing. Behind (right) a huntsman gallops up, shouting at the man and the hounds."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description: One of a set of four plates on huntmen's skills.
Signed by Brownlow North using an artist's device: compass pointing to the north.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching, soft ground etching & aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35 cm, on sheet 29 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Aquatints--England--London--1800.
Artists' devices.
Etchings--England--London--1800.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1800.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
North, Brownlow, 1778-1829, artist.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9590
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 489
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 272