Breaking Cover (Primary Title)
Herring's Hunting Sketches (Series Title)

John Frederick Herring, Sr., English, 1795 - 1865 (Artist)

1854
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Chromolithograph, heightened with white, on gray paper; mounted to a backing sheet of medium-weight cardstock
Sheet: 6 15/16 × 12 7/16 in. (17.62 × 31.59 cm)
Mount: 13 1/16 × 19 3/4 in. (33.18 × 50.17 cm)
85.1331.2
Not on view
Signed in stone lower left: J. F. Herring Senr.
Printed within image lower right: Vincent Brooks Lith: London. Printed beneath image in center, on mount: BREAKING COVER./ LONDON: PUBLISHED JAN. 9TH 1854 BY LLOYD , BROTHERS & Co. 22 LUDGATE HILL. Inscribed in graphite on mount upper left: Druck. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "Herring"; in center: "HRH 21 / 32" and "52."
Paul Mellon Collection
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