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1823 Sherwood after Alken - HARE HUNTING - hand coloured aquatint

1823 Sherwood after Alken - HARE HUNTING - hand coloured aquatint

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Antique hand coloured aquatint.

Published by Sherwood & Co Paternoster Row 1823.

21.5 x 13.3 cm

Exquisite original hand colour.

A scene from The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette. 

Thomas Sutherland (c.1785 - 1827) was a British aquatinter and artist who lived and worked in London.

Samuel Alken (1756 - 1815) was a British landscape artist and pioneer of aquatint printing. Alken is particularly remembered for his sporting scenes, particularly of hunting, a genre in which his sons, Samuel and Henry Thomas, also worked.

Evidence of earlier mounting to corners on verso. Manuscript ownership inscription to verso dated 1833 with minor show-through.

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