Print Description
A deer fleeing through a stream in a forested area, chased by two hunting dogs and two riders. A third hunter is already present on the bank to which the deer runs.
Made by Heawood after Ruisdael.
Medium: Handcoloured engraving. on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 27.2 x 20.5 cm (10.71 x 8.07 inch). Image size: 18.5 x 16 cm. (7.28 x 6.3 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light ghosting from previous matting. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FLIGHT-DEER-FOREST-HUNTING DOG-HUNTER | DPO-PCO-2-35
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From ‘Payne’s Universum, or, Pictorial World’, published ca. 1850.
Biography engraver: Thomas Heawood (c.1810-c.1870) was a British engraver. Jacob Isaacksz van Ruysdael (c.1629 – 1682) was a Dutch goldne age landscape painter, and is considered the most famous of four Haarlem family members who painted.
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