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Snipe Shooting (Primary Title)

George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804 (Artist)

1790
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Color-printed and hand-colored etching and aquatint with multiple etched, aquatinted, and hand-colored borders on heavy laid paper with a watermark
European Art
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 22 7/8 in. (46.36 × 58.1 cm)
Plate: 18 1/16 × 22 5/8 in. (45.88 × 57.47 cm)
Image: 14 5/16 × 19 1/2 in. (36.35 × 49.53 cm)
Other (matted): 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm)
85.1390.4
Not on view
Snelgrove cites Siltzer (p. 189) as indicating that these plates are a reissue of a 1789 issue by T. Smith.
Printed beneath image in border, lower center: SNIPE SHOOTING. Printed beneath image lower left: Painted by G.Morland & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. Printed beneath image lower right: Pubd,, as the Act directs, Jany,, 1. 1790, by J,, Harris No,, 38 Dean Street, Soho. / & Thos Merle Leadenhall Street.
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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