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Sporting Sketches, No. 1 (Primary Title)

Henry Heath, English, active 1850 (Artist)

1834 or later
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1834
European Art
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark): 12 1/2 × 9 in. (31.75 × 22.86 cm)
Other (each vignette- approx.): 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (13.97 × 8.89 cm)
85.1286.1
Not on view
Each vignette initialled "HH" in plate lower right
Printed in upper margin in center: Sporting Sketches, No. 1. Printed beneath image, upper left: "Keep back my Dear Fellow I see a What's o name, thing"; upper right: "I say boy is there a Public House about here? oh yes Sir only a little way down the Road / about 2 Miles"; lower left: "Capital Shot!!! I do'nt think you've killed any thing, but you've frigten'd that Donkey / most infernally!!"; lower right: "Perch. by jengo! Uncommon small, uncommon." Printed in center of lower margin: Published by Charles Tilt. 86, Fleet Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Heath" and "HRH 17--36".
Paul Mellon Collection
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