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The Return Home (Primary Title)
Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting (Series Title)
The Beaufort Hunt (Alternate Title)

Walter Parry Hodges, English, 1760 - 1845 (Artist)

1833
English
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored etching and aquatint with selectively applied glaze on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN/ 1832
European Art
Sheet: 21 5/8 × 29 7/8 in. (54.93 × 75.88 cm)
Plate: 16 1/16 × 23 in. (40.8 × 58.42 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 × 20 1/4 in. (31.75 × 51.44 cm)
85.1446.8
Not on view
Printed above image, upper right: "Pl. 8". Printed beneath image, lower left: "From the original Drawings by W.P. HODGES ESQR."; lower right: "Engraved by HENRY ALKEN."; in center: "T. McLEAN Dirixit./ THE RETURN HOME./ Dedicated with Special Permission to his Grace the Duke of Beaufort K. G./ London Published July 1st 1833 by THOS. McLEAN, 26, Haymarket." Printed lower left: "Proof Impression"; lower right: "Colored by F. Rosenburg."
Paul Mellon Collection
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