Hounds finding., Brownlow North, 1800

One of a set of four hunting-scenes with punning titles, with the same signatures and imprint; they have pleasant landscape backgrounds, with clouds. A rider (left) has been flung over his horse's head and lies on his face screaming; the horse falls into a deep ditch edged by a fence (right). From one pocket spout the contents of a bottle of wine, from the other two hounds are tugging a cold chicken, other hounds are making with fierce intentness towards the chicken. A second rider just behind the fence pulls up his horse in alarm, a third in the background leaps over fence and ditch. See bmsats 9589-91; cf. Bmsat 9592, &c. 8 april 1800 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1800. Dimensions: Height: 250 mm; Width: 350 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Hounds finding. (BM 1868,0808.6879)