Shooting flying [graphic]

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: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching with aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1800
England > London > 1800
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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