print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: Sheepshanks.4516
Title: Series: Various Animals
Description: Title-page with signature written on wooden planks at left, a huntsman holding a horn and sitting on top of the planks in the centre, four dogs in the foreground, two pikemen beyond, hills in the background at left; frontispiece to a series of seven plates showing animals Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Abraham Hondius; Published by: Richard Tompson (?)
School/style
Production date: 1672
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 145 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 171 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is an undescribed second state with Tompson's address, for other states see S.4515 and S.4517. This is title-page to a series of seven showing various animals, for comment on the series see S.4515
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (1) (state not described); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (V.317.1); Weigel 1843 / Suppléments au Peintre-Graveur de Adam Bartsch (310.1); Blackett-Ord & Turner 2008 / Early Mezzotints: Prints Published by Richard Tompson and Alexander Browne (T.1.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: hunting/shooting; dog
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1836
Acquisition notes: For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Sheepshanks.4516
Additional IDs: Other BM number: S.4516

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