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Partridge Shooting (Primary Title)

Francis Calcraft Turner, English, active 1782, died 1846 (Artist)

1840
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 16 7/8 in. (37.47 × 42.86 cm)
Image: 11 7/16 × 13 7/8 in. (29.05 × 35.24 cm)
Other (matted): 19 × 25 in. (48.26 × 63.5 cm)
85.1368.1
Not on view
Stamp on verso: PAUL MELLON COLLECTION
Printed beneath image lower left: PAINTED BY F.C. TURNER. Printed beneath image lower right: THOS. FAIRLAND DELT. Printed beneath image in center:PARTRIDGE SHOOTING./ (col. 1): ---Thus one by one they fall, / Save what with happier fate escape untouch'd,; (col. 2): And o'er the open fields with rapid speed / To the close shelt'ring covert wing their way./ LONDON, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM SPOONER, 377, STRAND, MAY, 1, 1840 / Printed by Fairland, 45, St. John's Square. Inscribed in graphite on verso lower right: c (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
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