A Curious 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 CURIOUS DISCOVERY. / Having positively promised a friend some Game, you spend five or six Hours in pursuit of it without success, that is the Game was too far off, your Glove got / into your Eye, the Gun hung fire, or your Foot slipped; but in turning the corner of a Fence you Discover a Hare well snar'd (to your no small delight,) / but in the act of Baging [sic] it, you are roughly seized by two Keepers, who had found puss before you, and were lying in wait to detect the Poacher./ London, Published, Feby, 1st, 1816, by, S & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 13" and "53" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
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