Quails.10th. Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barrenger pinxt. Turner sculpt.
London, Published Sept. 1. 1810, at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, 380 x 443mm. Some spotting to image, ink spots to image lower left.
A pair of quail in a landscape. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812. After the animal painter James Barenger (1780 - 1831). He was the son of J. Barenger, a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813, and he was on his mother's side a nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1831, in which year he died Collector's stamp on verso.
Whitman: 660. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8096] £520.00
London, Published Sept. 1. 1810, at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.
Mezzotint, 380 x 443mm. Some spotting to image, ink spots to image lower left.
A pair of quail in a landscape. From a series of 14 plates 'British Feather Game' published 1810 - 1812. After the animal painter James Barenger (1780 - 1831). He was the son of J. Barenger, a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813, and he was on his mother's side a nephew of William Woollett, the eminent engraver. He obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1831, in which year he died Collector's stamp on verso.
Whitman: 660. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8096] £520.00