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Cockney Sportsmen Spying Game: Plate III, Evening (Primary Title)

Attributed to, Charles Ansell, English, active 1780–1800 (Artist)

ca. 1805
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: JOHN HALL / 1805
European Art
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark): 9 3/4 × 14 in. (24.77 × 35.56 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (21.59 × 31.75 cm)
85.1281.3
Not on view
Printed above image in center: COCKNEY SPORTSMEN SPYING GAME. Pl III Evening. Printed beneath image lower left: "Pubd Decr 8th 1800 by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly / Folios of Caracatures [sic] lentout for the Evening" and "I take that to be a Woodcock and the other/ a Moorhen, shoot Jemmy shoot." Printed beneath image lower right: "I'm shure [sic] I have shot something / Watty." and "hollo' there' why you have / me You d__d Cockney". Inscribed in graphite lower left: 3. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Ansell", "W-M/1805", "[Ansell]" and "HRH 15 / 30 / 1"
Paul Mellon Collection
Catching Sight: The World of British Sporting Print, VMFA, August 31, 2013 - July 13, 2014
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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