A trip to Melton Mowbray / from drawings by J.D. Paul, Esqr.
Published / Created:
[London] : Pubd. by S. & J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place, London, [1822]
Physical Description:
14 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 17 x 61 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2011 26 Copy 1 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Rare Books and Manuscripts Folio B 2011 26 Copy 2 Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Yale Center for British Art copy 2 has an engraved label affixed to the reverse of each panel: A trip to Melton Mowbray. From drawings by J.D. Paul, Esqr. Pubd. by S. & J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery, 34 Rathbone Place, London. £2.10.0. Aquatint engravings after drawing by John Dean Paul. Schwerdt attributes the engravings to Henry Alken.Date of publication from Abbey.Issued without title page.Plates 1-2 and 6-7, each half the length of the other plates, are given in pairs.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 488Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 363Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed), 193Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, III, p. 3Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p. 128BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 bound in red levant morocco with gold tooling on front and back covers. Each scene mounted on thick card, 2 plates per page, on 6 leaves. Armorial bookplate: Fitz Eugene Dixon. Copy 2 is the Abbey copy. Bound in dark red levant morocco. Plates mounted singly on brown backing, stiffened with several layers of Whatman paper to the thickness of card.Set of fourteen hand-colored aquatints intended to form a panorama.
Contents:
Solvitur acris hyems, it thaws, we must be off to Melton -- Go! I fancy he can! Milton loquitur upon my soul a lie! Shakespeare -- Doing a bit of city -- All the world's a stage. (Bull and Mouth Inn) -- At his head a grass green turf, and at his heels a stone! -- These come hopping -- Non effectives;Nec possum dicere quare -- Frogs & cranes! Shewing a friend the short way to cover! -- My soul's on fire and eager for the field! -- A struggle for a start -- Candidates for Brooke's nunc est bibendum -- Gens humana ruit. O'Crus. O Brachia! (a check) -- Death and the doctors -- Dulce domum. Jamdudum animus est in patinis, exeunt in fumo.
Subject Terms:
Fox hunting -- England -- Pictorial works. | Melton Mowbray (England) -- Pictorial works. | Hunting -- Pictorial works. | Hunt riding -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | S. & J. Fuller -- Publisher. | Dixon, Fitz Eugene -- Bookplate.