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[Hunting.]

[Hunting.]"Throw the broad ditch behind you, o'er the hedge."/ "High bound restless."; "And o'er the lawn"/ "In fancy swallowing up the space between"/ "Pour all your speed into the rapid game"; "For happy he who tops the wheeling chace"/ "Who saw the villain seiz'd, and dying hard"/ "Without complaint, though by an hundred mouths"/ "Relentless torn"_____; "Give ye Britons then"/ "Your sportive fury pitiless to pour"/ "Loose on the nightly robber of the fold:" Thomson

S Howitt
[S.W. Fores, Pub.d 1 Nov. 1784.]
Four coloured aquatints from a set of six (plates 1, 3, 4 and 6), each 245 x 310mm. 9½ x 12¼". Scarce. All four trimmed very close around image; hole in top right of "Throw the broad ditch"; nick along bottom of "Give ye Britons then"
Four prints depicting episodes from a hunting excursion.
Siltzer p.163
[Ref: 8666]  £750.00


 

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