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Author/Creator:Woollett, William, 1735-1785, printmaker.
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Title:Shooting. Plate IIId [graphic] : engraved after an original picture in the possession of Mr. Bradford / Geo. Stubbs pinxt. ; Wm. Woollett sculpt.
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Publication:[London] : Published by Thos. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London, as the act directs, 30th Sep. 1770.
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Physical Description:1 print : engraving with etching ; sheet 43.8 x 54 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Call Number: 770.09.30.01++
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Gift of Anthony Fons; November 2019.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
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Medium:wove paper
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Notes: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.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Summary: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.
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Subjects:Game bird hunting--England.
Hunters--British.
Hunting--England.
Hunting dogs.
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Genre/Form:Engravings--England--London--1770.
Sporting prints.
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Also listed under:Bradford, Thomas, -1773, publisher.
Stubbs, George, 1724-1806, artist.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14807447