Set of eight prints featuring Dick Knight of the Pytchley Hunt

by Francis after Charles Loraine Smith Jukes

$2,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fascinating set of eight hunting prints depicting the great Pytchley hunt led by Dick Knight. Loraine Smith was an amateur artist of high repute, and the present series is regarded as some of his best-known prints. This important set is the only visual record of the great Pytchley hunt led by the celebrated huntsmen Dick Knight. At the time of publication, there existed a great rivalry between the Quornites and the Pytchley followers, which is wittily referred to in this

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