Accession number
PML 143905.140
Published
London : Pub by J.L. Marks April 20. 1838 91 Long Lane, Smithfield, [1838]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Forms part of a bound album containing a collection of prints published by J.L. Marks and the later firm of S. Marks and Sons (see "John Lewis Marks album," PML 143905).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 178 x 281 ; sheet: 243 x 376 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a group of men brandishing stout sticks fighting with some poachers who have been apprehended near the woods at night; at center, one man (left) raises his stick to strike another man carrying a rifle (right) as a dog bites the leg of the man at right; in the background at far left a man climbs over a fence, and a large bag of game is shown in the foreground at far right.
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