Sporting Sketches, No. 2 (Primary Title)

Henry Heath, English, active 1850 (Artist)

19th century
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper; title, captions, and publication data etched on plate.
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark): 12 1/2 × 9 in. (31.75 × 22.86 cm)
Other (each vignette- approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 in. (13.97 × 10.16 cm)
85.1286.2
Not on view
Printed in upper margin in center: Sporting Sketches, No. 2. Printed beneath image, upper left: "Go it there's nobody coming . Pick out a good un Sam."; upper right: "Five Shillings for a Duck!! what a treat! Sam have you any Silver?"; lower left: "What's the odd's I do'nt give em Pepper?"; lower right: "Well Jack is there many fish in this Pond? Why ye'r see Sir the water only come in last night". 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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