The poacher's progress : in eight plates / from paintings by C. Blake ; engraved, in colours, and published by C. Turner, no. 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square.
Published / Created:
[London] : [C. Turner], 1826.
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 46 x 59 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2011 21Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates 1, 2, and 5 are signed: "Painted by I.L. Turner, from a sketch by C. Blake. Engraved by C. Turner." Plates 3, 6, 7, and 8 are signed: "Painted by C. Blake. Engraved by C. Turner." Plate 4 is signed: "Painted by C. Blake. Engraved by R. Havell Junr."Plates are dated 1825-1826."Price twelve shillings each or £4:12 the set. Bound in boards, £5:5."--Title page.Five of Blake's original watercolors reproduced here are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (Department of Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.666-670).Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p. 48BAC: British Art Center copy unbound. Has laid in the original printed cover label, on green paper.Set of 8 hand-colored aquatints depicting the act and consequences of poaching.
Contents:
Poachers setting the snare -- Poachers taking the struggling hare from the noose -- Poachers stalking for partridges -- Poachers snaring pheasants -- Poachers meeting the keepers -- Poachers scuffling with the constables in the skittle ground -- Poachers before the magistrates -- Poachers in prison (the pardon).
Subject Terms:
Poaching -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Poachers -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Hunting -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Turner, C. -- Publisher.