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Grouse Shooting (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

1799
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored mezzotint with touches of etching on wove paper with a watermark: P & E
European Art
Sheet (trimmed irregularly): 10 1/8 × 14 in. (25.72 × 35.56 cm)
Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. (24.77 × 34.61 cm)
Image: 9 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (23.5 × 34.61 cm)
85.1256.1
Not on view
Watercolor with gouache used for hand-coloring.
Printed beneath image in center: "GROUSE SHOOTING. / Published 1st. Jany.1799, by, LAURIE & WHITTLE, 53, Fleet Street, London." Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "Laurie &"; in center: "HRH 19 / 41a - 41" and "1" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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