Hunting Incident: 'Leave It To Me and My Old Mare Will Soon Make an Opening' (Primary Title)

Hablot Knight 'Phiz' Browne, English, 1815 - 1882 (Artist)

19th century
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
black chalk and watercolor on paper, mounted overall to board
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 7 7/16 in. (27.31 × 18.89 cm)
Mount: 22 × 16 in. (55.88 × 40.64 cm)
85.1158.2
Not on view
Signed lower left: Phiz
Inscribed in graphite at lower edge: Leave it to me & my old mare will soon make an opening. Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower center: "M 25" (circled); lower right: "Hablot Knight "Phiz" Browne/ Hunting Incident Leave it to me & my old mare will/ soon make an opening". Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount: "64/ 9/ 12/ 8" and "Hablot Knight 'Phiz' Browne (1815-1822) [sic]/ Hunting Incident: / "Leave it to me & my old mare..."/ PM2238"
Paul Mellon Collection
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