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Sportsman's hall
Title
Sportsman's hall [graphic] / Rowlandson 1806.
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1806]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 255 x 324 mm
Medium
laid paper
Notes
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.
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
March 31, 2022
References
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. Five hundred years of medicine in art, 48.4
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1806.
Etchings - England - London - 1806.
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