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Object Type
Museum number: 1840,0808.183
Title: Object: Shooting
Description: Two men with their hounds on a field beside a thatched house, one man shoots at two birds in the air. 1770 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: William Woollett; After: George Stubbs
School/style
Production date: 1770
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 430 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 543 millimetres (trimmed)
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Curator's comments: One of set of four sporting prints after Stubbs; all four paintings are at the Yale Center for British Art.
Bibliographic references: Fagan 1885 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett (69.III); Lennox-Boyd 1989 / George Stubbs: The Complete Engraved Works (13.III)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1840
Acquisition notes: £242 was the total paid for the group 1840,0808.1 to 203. Individual prices are sometimes recorded, and have been noted on the records.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1840,0808.183

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