
A Painful Discovery (Primary Title)
Sporting Discoveries; or The Miseries of Shooting (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed beneath image in center: A PAINFUL DISCOVERY. / Hearing your Dog call out lustily on the other side of a Fence, you make all speed / towards him, supposing him caught in a Virmin [sic] trap, but on steping [sic] over the Hedge/ you Discover, to your no small pain your Leg in one of much larger dimensions./ London, Published Feby. 1st, 1816, by S & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "Watermark / 1822"; in center: "HRH 12 / 13A" and "51" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
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