Sportsman's hall [graphic]

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Description

Title: Sportsman's hall [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fox-hunters relaxing
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created: [1806]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
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: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 255 x 324 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1806
Etchings England London 1806
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Gout
Alcoholic beverages
Courtship
Dogs
French horns
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Hunting trophies
Riding habits
Rifles
Subjects: Gout
Alcoholic beverages
Courtship
Dogs
French horns
Hunting
Hunting dogs
Hunting trophies
Riding habits
Rifles
England > 1806
England > London > 1806

Access: Public
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