Plovers.9th Plate of the British Feather Game.
Barenger pinx.t. Turner sculp.t.
London Publish'd Sept. 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼". Some damage in title area.
James Barenger (1780 - 1831), 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 until his death. From a series of fourteen prints "British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12.
Whitman: 659. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8669] £320.00
London Publish'd Sept. 1 1810 at R.Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Mezzotint, printed in colours. 365 x 435mm, 14¼ x 17¼". Some damage in title area.
James Barenger (1780 - 1831), 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 until his death. From a series of fourteen prints "British Feather Game", depicting English game birds, all engraved by Charles Turner and published 1810-12.
Whitman: 659. Siltzer: pg. 79.
[Ref: 8669] £320.00