Breaking Cover (Primary Title)
A Celebrated Fox Hunt (Series Title)

James Pollard, English, 1792 - 1867 (Artist)

19th century
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Color-printed and hand-colored aquatint and etching on wove paper
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark.): 15 3/4 × 20 3/8 in. (40.01 × 51.75 cm)
Image: 13 5/16 × 18 1/16 in. (33.81 × 45.88 cm)
Mat: 19 × 25 in. (48.26 × 63.5 cm)
85.1365.1
Not on view
Printed beneath image, lower left: "Drawn by J. Pollard."; lower right: "Engraved by R. Havell & Son."; lower center: "A CELEBRATED FOX HUNT. / Breaking Cover."; lower left corner: "No. 1."; lower right corner: "Proof". Inscribed in graphite on verso lower right: "61" and "HRH. v. 4. p. 3."
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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