Coursing. Finding Plate 2

by S. after Dean Wolstenholme Himley

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A handsome aquatint of three gentlemen setting off to course a hare, by S. Himley after a painting by the celebrated sporting artist Dean Wolstenholme. Around 1820, S. Himley produced two sets of hunting aquatints after skilled paintings by Wolstenholme. These sets, expertly engraved in aquatint, were comprised of four plates illustrating shooting, and four plates depicting coursing. As with many of the prints after Wolstenholme's paintings it is difficult to decipher whether

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