print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.7077
- Title
- Object: A flight of sportsmen, alighting in a preserved cover.
- Description
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After the title: 'Vide Newspaper Account of the Country Rangers'. Four sportsmen, preceded by three dogs and followed by two gamekeepers, run through the air; they fire downwards at the game rising from a thicket. Pheasants fly off or sit on the branches of a tree; pigeons fly away; two hares escape, one sits beside a fern. The pheasants and stylized plants give a quasi-tropical air to the English scene. A sportsman on the ground looks up at the monstrous flight and runs off having dropped his gun; he says: "Ecod, here's a desperate Flight of Wild Fowl, I donot like the looks of them." The aerial sportsmen wear gaiters or top-boots and have a fashionable appearance; one says: "We'll hunt their Covers. We'll preserve their Game for them just to astonish the Natives." Their gamekeepers carry sacks of game on their backs; one says: "Rot these Young Blades they will never be satisfied, my back is almost broke already." 26 January 1803
Etching
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 388 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.7077