Sporting Sketches, No. 6 (Primary Title)

Henry Heath, English, active 1850 (Artist)

n.d.
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 9 1/16 in. (31.75 × 23.02 cm)
Other (each vignette- approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 in. (13.97 × 10.16 cm)
85.1286.6
Not on view
Printed in upper margin: Sporting Sketches, No. 6. Printed beneath image, upper left: "I never lilkes to go out with a Man wot do'nt know how to carry a Gun; / N'or I, I'm always werry particler indeed!"; upper right: "My good fellow I'm sorry I can't render you any Assistance; Mechanics being a / part of my education that was left out."; lower left: "Well done!!! why Bob you'll soon beat Squire Osbaldiston all to nothing!"; lower right: "My good Woman we had no idea the Hanimal belonged to you." Printed beneath image in center: Published by Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street.
Paul Mellon Collection
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