Plate 1st. Cockney-Sportsmen marking Game. [&] Plate 2.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Shooting Flying. [&] Plate 3.d. Cockney-Sportsmen Re-Charging. [&] Plate 4.th. Cockney-Sportsmen finding a Hare.
I.C. [Issac Cruikshank?] Esq.r del.t. J.s. G.y fec.t. [Etched by Gillray].
London Publish'd November 12th. 1800. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Set of four etchings with very fine hand colour. Sheets: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Trimmed to printed borders.
Four hunting scenes showing two London 'cits' out shooting near Hornsey, showing their incompetence. A fashionably dress young man is accompanied by a poodle; the older and fatter John Bull-type has a bulldog.
BM Satire 9596-9599.
[Ref: 61805] £1,500.00
London Publish'd November 12th. 1800. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street.
Set of four etchings with very fine hand colour. Sheets: 240 x 350mm (9½ x 13¾''). Trimmed to printed borders.
Four hunting scenes showing two London 'cits' out shooting near Hornsey, showing their incompetence. A fashionably dress young man is accompanied by a poodle; the older and fatter John Bull-type has a bulldog.
BM Satire 9596-9599.
[Ref: 61805] £1,500.00