Fox Hunting. La Chasse au Renard

by Edward - After Samuel Howitt Orme, publisher

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image from 'Orme's Collection of British Field Sports': the finest and most important sporting book of the last two centuries Schwerdt Samuel Howitt, genius, artist, sportsman , concentrated his considerable artistic talents on picturing scenes of horse-racing and hunting in all its aspects. Born in Nottinghamshire, England, Howitt was largely self-taught , although he must have been helped by his companions George Morland, Rowlandson and John Raphael Smith.

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