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1. Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger ... [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the Act directs [after January 1, 1778?]
- Call Number:
- 778.01.01.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two well-dressed young ladies meet before a farm house. On the left, Miss Wicket leans on her cricket-bat turning towards Miss Trigger who advances with her dogs, holding aloft a pheasant and two partidges, as she tramples a paper marked "Effeminacy". Miss Wicket wears a chip hat and jacket with waistcoat, her sporting petticoat short enough to reveal her ankles. Miss Trigger wears a large hat of the bergère style, a long coat with buttoned sleeves and boots. Behind the pair a young girl catches a ball
- Description:
- Title from item., Verse follows title: Miss Trigger you see is an excellent shot. And forty-five notches Miss Wicket's just got., Date from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in plate at lower left: 276., Reduced version of no. 4555 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Date erased from this impression?
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Women, Recreation, Sports for women, Gender identity, Cricket players, Hunting dogs, Game bird hunting, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger ... [graphic]
2. Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IIId
- Creator:
- Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 30th Sep. 1770.
- Call Number:
- 770.09.30.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men hunt in the field across from a thatched cottage (left) with large tree in it front yard, separated from the road by a rail fence. The hunter on the left has just fired his gun at two birds in flight above right. His companion stands ready with his gun as two hounds watch for their catch
- Description:
- Titled etched below image., With two stanzas of verse, four lines each, on either side of title: A gentle gale that blows along the land ... The rest well mark'd, again are to be found., One of a set of four prints showing a day of hunting, with verses below the image beneath each image describing the progression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IIId
3. Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IId
- Creator:
- Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 30th Augt. 1770.
- Call Number:
- 770.08.30.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men armed with guns walk towards a field across from a thatched cottage (left) as two hounds bound ahead
- Description:
- Titled etched below image., With two stanzas of verse, four lines each, on either side of title: Bright sol's all chearing beams illum the day, The dew's exhal'd from all the spangled spray ... Now snuff the air, now scent the tainted ground., One of a set of four prints showing a day of hunting, with verses below the image beneath each image describing the progression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IId
4. Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IV
- Creator:
- Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 25 Octr. 1771.
- Call Number:
- 771.10.25.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a dense forest, two men with hounds rest by a tree; one, standing, holds a rabbit; the other lounges beside the tree under which is their kill of game birds
- Description:
- Titled etched below image., With two stanzas of verse, four lines each, on either side of title: Sated with sport as one recumbent lies, Success the other strews before his eyes ... Each night, whilst, they rehearse the oft told tale., One of a set of four prints showing a day of hunting, with verses below the image beneath each image describing the progression., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate IV
5. Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate Ist
- Creator:
- Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1st Augt. 1769.
- Call Number:
- 770.08.01.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men armed with guns (right), one standing while the other sits and loads his gun, prepare for a day of hunting with their two dogs. On the left is a cottage beneath a large crag, possibly Creswell Crags, on the edge of the Welbeck Estate, which feature in many Stubbs paintings
- Description:
- Titled etched below image., With two stanzas of verse, four lines each, on either side of title: Soon as the grey ey'd Morn's uncertain light, Forsakes dull, Morpehus and the shades of Night ... Vaining each Master charge the murdering gun., One of a set of four prints showing a day of hunting, with verses below the image beneath each image describing the progression., and Imperfect impression with loss of first(?) word of imprint. Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- [Published] by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Game bird hunting, Hunters, British, Hunting, and Hunting dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shooting. engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / [graphic] : Plate Ist
