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Hounds in full cry / B. [compass pointing to the north] Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

Hounds in full cry / B. [compass pointing to the north] Esqr. delt. ; Js. Gy. fect.

London : Publish'd April 8th, 1800, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street, [1800]
etching and aquatint, hand colored
image: 247 x 348 mm; trimmed sheet: 255 x 356 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.310
Notes
By James Gillray after Brownlow North, signed with the artist's first initial and device (a compass pointing north) at lower left.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a rider leaning back in the saddle tugging hard at his rein; he is riding over the hounds while behind him a second huntsman gallops up, shouting at the man and the hounds.

Associated names
North, Brownlow, 1741-1820, designer.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints