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Pheasant Shooting (Primary Title)

George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804 (Artist)

1791
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Color-printed and hand-colored etching and aquatint with multiple etched, aquatinted, and hand-colored borders on heavy laid paper
European Art
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 23 in. (46.36 × 58.42 cm)
Plate: 17 9/16 × 22 9/16 in. (44.61 × 57.31 cm)
Image: 14 5/16 × 19 1/2 in. (36.35 × 49.53 cm)
Other (matted): 20 × 27 in. (50.8 × 68.58 cm)
85.1390.1
Not on view
Snelgrove cites Siltzer (p. 189) as indicating that these plates are a reissue of a 1789 issue by T. Smith.
Printed beneath image in border, lower center: PHEASANT SHOOTING. Printed beneath image lower left: Painted by G. Morland, & Etch'd by T. Rowlandson. Printed beneath image in center: Aquatinta by S. Alkin. [sic] Printed beneath image lower right: Pubd. as the Act directs Jany,, 1. 1791, by J. Harris, No,, 37, Dean Street, Soho. / & Thos,, Merle,--Leadenhall Street.-
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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