drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.2293
- Description
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Fox-hunting; men on horseback gallopping across a field with hounds, chasing a fox which runs across the next field on the left; with a man on foot waving his hat to indicate where the fox has gone, a church and other houses scattered among the trees in the background.
Watercolour over pen-and-ink
- Production date
- 1780s-1790s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 237 millimetres
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Width: 348 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See also the mezzotint after this by Richard Earlom (2010,7081.2292)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.2293