Sporting Sketches, No. 3 (Primary Title)

Henry Heath, English, active 1850 (Artist)

19th century
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark): 12 × 9 1/16 in. (30.48 × 23.02 cm)
Other (each vignette): 5 1/2 × 4 in. (13.97 × 10.16 cm)
85.1286.3
Not on view
Printed in upper margin in center: Sporting Sketches, No. 3. Printed beneath image, upper left: "Take Aim at three or four they'r all Black Game!! / Moor Hens you mean Jack."; upper right: "I say Old Chaw-Bacon. what tribe of Animal do you call that? / why it be a Warmint Sir."; lower left: "This is a queerish customer. I think we had better turn back."; lower right: "E'gad I'd no idea I could jump so well!! it's all up with Snooks'." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Heath" and "HRH 17--37A".
Paul Mellon Collection
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