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The Race.
The Race.
Howitt.
Published May 10th 1811by S.Howitt, Panton Street, Haymarket, London.
Very fine coloured aquatint, platemark 200 x 290mm (8 x 11½"). Very large margins. Platemark broken along lower edge; paper watermarked 'W Edgar 1797'.
Closely fought race between three horses in foreground. By Samuel Howitt (1756/7-1823), painter and etcher. From a wealthy family, Howitt was a keen sportsman who became an artist (drawing on his sporting enthusiasms) when financial difficulties forced him to earn a living. In 1779 Howitt married Elizabeth Rowlandson, sister of the artist Thomas Rowlandson, and the two men were friends, with some similarities in their watercolour style.
For another impression with different colouring see ref. 3330. Not in Siltzer.
[Ref: 37017]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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The Suffolk Punch.
The Suffolk Punch. Satllion, rising 7,_the property of M.r. Denny, Egmoor, Norfolk. Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.
Drawn by M.r. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a Painting by M.r. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on Stone & Printed by Fairland, 45 S.t. Johns Sq.
Published August, 1841 by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet: 415 x 330mm (16½ x 13"). Small tears in edges.
A portrait of the chesnut Suffolk Punch breed, a domestic daught horse used in farming or for pulling artillery. From Professor David Low's (1786-1859) 'The Breeds of the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands' (1842), which contained fifty-six lithographs after paintings by William Shiels (1783-1857). Low, professor of agriculture at Edinburgh university and the founder of an agricultural museum, commissioned Shiels to paint 100 scientifically accurate illustrations of domestic livestock for his collection. A selection of these paintings, many of which depict breeds now extinct, were selected by Low to illustrate his ideas on breeding and preservation of indigenous species.
[Ref: 37507]   £320.00  
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