The kill: two riders dismounted, one holding fox above clamouring hounds; the huntsman blowing his horn ...

Truchy, Laurent (1731-1764)

Canot, Pierre-Charles (1710-1777)

Wootton, John (ca. 1682-1765) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1735

Height:

49.5 cm  (19 1/2 in.)

Width:

45.1 cm  (17 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

engraving

Description

Scene includes hunters, horses, dogs, the captured fox, one hunter on horseback playing a hunting horn, and a young Black page holding a hunting horn; at the center, the probable scenario is the presentation of the fox to Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth. Based on a painting by John Wootton (RIdIM item 6298).

People as subjects

Weymouth, Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount (1710-1751)

Iconclass

43C114
hunter
46C1314
horses and kindred animals
43C111231
fox-hunting
43C1112311
fox and hounds
48C75
making music; musician with instrument
43C11482
hunting horn
46A1251
page, footboy

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hunting horn [4138] (two)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Snelgrove, Dudley. British sporting and animal prints 1658-1874: A catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1981)

Notes

INSCRIPTIONS BELOW IMAGE:
J: Wootton.pinx: | L:Truchy & C:Cannot sculp
"Jay Bonne Cause"
To The Right Hon. Thomas Viscount Weymouth | This Plate is Humbly Inscribed by His Lordship's most Dutifull and Obedient Servant in Ladd | Engraved from the Original Painting in Long Leat Hall | Licensed and Published pursuant to ye VIII of George ye II

RIdIM record id

6297