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Heading: (Fox-Hunting)
Author: Herring, James F.
Title: Herring's Fox-Hunting Scenes: The Death
Place: London
Publisher: R. Dodson
Date: 1867
Item # : 156291
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   91
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 500
High Estimate   $ 800
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Description:
Hand-colored aquatint, engraved by J. Harris. 17¼x30½ on sheet 24x36.
The dead fox is held aloft by the huntsman, surrounded by the hounds, as stragglers ride up. Vivid depiction of the soon-to-be-outlawed pastimes of the country gentlemen (and women) of England.
Condition:
Paper slightly toned, else near fine.
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