Death of the Doe.
[George Stubbs.]
London Republished June 4, 1817 by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Street.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 400 x 505mm (15¾ x 20").
A rare mezzotint of the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801 with the title ''A park scene at the Grove, near Watford Herts, the seat of the Earl of Clarenden'', which includes a portrait of the Earl's gamekeeper Thomas Freeman. In 'The Complete Engraved Works of George Stubbs' the authors write that as the mezzotint was first published in 1804 it is likely to have been a collaboration between George Stubbs (who was 80 years old at the time) and his son George Townley Stubbs: the 1804 impression have the inscription 'G. Stubbs, No. 24 Somerset Str. Portman Square’, thus listing George Stubbs only as publisher. The painting is now in the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art.
Lennox-Boyd 145.ii. See Mellon Collection: B1985.19.5 for the painting.
[Ref: 20937] £7,500.00
London Republished June 4, 1817 by Edw.d Orme, New Bond Street, corner of Brook Street.
Mezzotint, printed in colours and hand-finished. 400 x 505mm (15¾ x 20").
A rare mezzotint of the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801 with the title ''A park scene at the Grove, near Watford Herts, the seat of the Earl of Clarenden'', which includes a portrait of the Earl's gamekeeper Thomas Freeman. In 'The Complete Engraved Works of George Stubbs' the authors write that as the mezzotint was first published in 1804 it is likely to have been a collaboration between George Stubbs (who was 80 years old at the time) and his son George Townley Stubbs: the 1804 impression have the inscription 'G. Stubbs, No. 24 Somerset Str. Portman Square’, thus listing George Stubbs only as publisher. The painting is now in the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art.
Lennox-Boyd 145.ii. See Mellon Collection: B1985.19.5 for the painting.
[Ref: 20937] £7,500.00