1823 Sherwood after Alken - RAT HUNTING - hand coloured aquatint

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. Three tiny stab marks to lower margin