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Shooting flying
Title
Shooting flying [graphic] / I.C. Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.
Publication
London : Publish'd November 12th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, [12 November 1800]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with aquatint ; sheet 24 x 34 cm
Medium
wove paper
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: 'Cits' -- Bird shooting -- Bird houses -- Birds: pigeons.
Notes
Title etched below image, following series title.
Second of four prints in a series entitled: Cockney-sportsmen.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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.
Summary
"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.
Variant and related titles
Cockney-sportsmen shooting flying
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 07, 2008
Series
Cockney-sportsmen ; plate 2d
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 9597
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 272
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 493
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1800.
Etchings - England - London - 1800.
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