Rural sports. Buck hunting

Title:: Rural sports. Buck hunting
Description:: Buck-hunting, as a figurative sport, seems, if we may believe the print, to be attended with certain difficulties. An antiquated gentleman, who in the present case seems to be the hunter, is brought up abruptly, in full view of the quarry, by a river, which he has no apparent means of crossing. The game in view, a military buck, is 'run to ground' in a summer-house, on the opposite side of the water, where, in spite of a warning-board about Man-traps, he is visibly poaching on the hunter's preserves,
Artist:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:: Rowlandson Del
Date:: [1814?]
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Caricatures
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:: The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
Subjects:: Kissing
Soldiers
Rivers
Trees
Extent:: 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 26 x 39 cm
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Publisher:: London, No. 111 Cheapside : Thomas Tegg
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 287
On item: 73
Notes (acquisition):: The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):: Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):: Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5," the fifth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:: 18_03_000530
Barcode:: 36666003263023