Antique Master Print-RABBIT-WARREN-Robinson-c.1674-1706

“Rabbit Warren.” A hare-warren; rabbits and hares in the left foreground, near a rabbit hole under a knoll, with a bird and two other pieces of game hanging from a wooden frame standing above it; with an eagle flying overhead carrying a rabbit in its claws, a duck flying further off, a fox running into the thick trees on the left and a badger standing in front of a hole in the left foreground.

Made by Robert Robinson after own design.

Medium: Mezzotint engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 25.6 x 18 cm (10.08 x 7.09 inch). Image size: 25.5 x 17.9 cm. (10.04 x 7.05 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Slight paper loss at left and top margin and top right corner, backed. Two small pin holes, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

RABBIT-WARREN | PCO-C43-16

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by John Smith. The composition is related to an etching of rabbits by Robert Gaywood (fl. 1650-1711) after Francis Barlow. See cat. no. 21 in Jacqueline Burgers, ‘Wenceslaus Hollar: Seventeenth-Century Prints from the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (exh. cat. Alexandria, Virginia, 1994).

Biography engraver: Robert Robinson (1651-1706 in London), was a British artist; painter-stainer and mezzotinter active in London from 1674 to 1691.