The Larder. In the Common Parlour at Houghton.
Martin de Vos Pinxit. Joseph Farington Delin.t. Rich.d Earlom Sculpsit.
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside. London. Bit later.
Mezzotint. 455 x 570mm (18 x 22½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear and crack in plate mark, some creasing & rubbing.
A smiling man holds up a rabbit, standing before a display of game and other foods, with a cat on clawing a string of small birds and a dog surprised by another cat under the table. Among the foods are a deer, boar, lobster, pumpkins, artichokes and asparagus. The scene was drawn by Joseph Farington after the painting by Maarten de Vos and published in Boydell's series of engravings of the Walpole Collection. The painting, the enormous 'Cook at the Table with Game' (1.7 x 2.4 metres), was sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 and now hangs in the General Staff Building of the Hermitage.
[Ref: 48155] £360.00
Published Nov.r 1st 1775 by John Boydell, Engraver, in Cheapside. London. Bit later.
Mezzotint. 455 x 570mm (18 x 22½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear and crack in plate mark, some creasing & rubbing.
A smiling man holds up a rabbit, standing before a display of game and other foods, with a cat on clawing a string of small birds and a dog surprised by another cat under the table. Among the foods are a deer, boar, lobster, pumpkins, artichokes and asparagus. The scene was drawn by Joseph Farington after the painting by Maarten de Vos and published in Boydell's series of engravings of the Walpole Collection. The painting, the enormous 'Cook at the Table with Game' (1.7 x 2.4 metres), was sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 and now hangs in the General Staff Building of the Hermitage.
[Ref: 48155] £360.00