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Sportsman's hall
Title
Sportsman's hall [graphic] / Rowlandson 1812.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1812]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 25 x 33 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
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.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. 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.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Fox-hunters relaxing
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2008
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1812.
Etchings - England - London - 1812.
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