Shooting flying [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Shooting flying [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying
- Creator
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Contributor
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [12 November 1800]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street
- Abstract
-
"The younger man leaps a low paling, firing at a flight of pigeons, but missing every bird. His fat companion, who is checked by a low stile (right), tries to catch his hat which his friend has knocked off."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image, following series title.
Second of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Bird shooting -- Bird houses -- Birds: pigeons.
1 print : etching with aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 28.6 x 38.7 cm.
Mounted on leaf 41 of volume 10 of 12. - Provenance
- From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 24 x 34 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 10
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800 - Material
- etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 8258574
- Object ID (OID)
- 11861009
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