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George Stubbs
Partridge shooting. No. 1
[London] : Published by T. Gosden at the Sportsman's Repository Bedford St. Covent Garden, [182-?]
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image: 128 x 178 mm; sheet: 160 x 213 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.706
Notes
Below caption title: 1.
trimmed to plate size.
Unsigned line etching after a design by George Stubbs; this print is a different rendering of the same design included in a set of engravings by William Woollett after Stubbs, published by Thomas Bradford in 1769-1771 with the title "Shooting"; publisher Thomas Gosden also appears to have issued the set of four designs by Stubbs entitled "Partridge shooting" rendered in aquatint.
trimmed to plate size.
Unsigned line etching after a design by George Stubbs; this print is a different rendering of the same design included in a set of engravings by William Woollett after Stubbs, published by Thomas Bradford in 1769-1771 with the title "Shooting"; publisher Thomas Gosden also appears to have issued the set of four designs by Stubbs entitled "Partridge shooting" rendered in aquatint.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two sportsmen with their dogs beside an old thatched watermill; one of the men is seated reloading his gun while the second man stands and applies a ramrod to his gun. Behind them is a rocky landscape of trees and water.
Associated names
Stubbs, George, 1724-1806, designer.
Gosden, Thomas, 1780-1843, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Gosden, Thomas, 1780-1843, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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