A Series of Eight Plate of Fox Hunting.
London, Thomas M'Lean, 1833-34.
Beaufort Hunt is a masterful work on fox-hunting collaboration between Alken and Hodges. Published as a set of eight in 1833 with the ninth issued a year later, the Beaufort Hunt was the work of Alken, a professional artist and Hodges a Dorset amateur. It was eulogized on publication, and has always been regarded as one of the period's finest series of fox-hunting prints. As noted by Snelgrove, both the Melon and Schwerdt copy all carry the same etched signatures and markings, as such, it is likely that this large suite was only published in a deluxe or 'proof' edition.
Landscape folio (53.1 x 73.1 cm). 9 aquatint etchings, with 1 lithograph cut out from original title-page and window-mounted onto first leaf, all hand coloured (lacking complete title-page and dedication leaf, tiny marginal repaired tear to plates 1 and 3, chip to corner of plates 3 and 4, tiny repaired hole to plate 6 and repaired 550 mm tear to supplementary plate, not affecting image, overall plates impressively clean). Modern red cloth covered folder, with gilt titled paper label; small red folder affixed to inside cover.
Bobins II, 779; Melon/Snelgrove pp.146-8; Schwerdt I, p.244 & IV, p.136; Siltzer p.158; Tooley 265: 'extremely rare'.
Landscape folio (53.1 x 73.1 cm). 9 aquatint etchings, with 1 lithograph cut out from original title-page and window-mounted onto first leaf, all hand coloured (lacking complete title-page and dedication leaf, tiny marginal repaired tear to plates 1 and 3, chip to corner of plates 3 and 4, tiny repaired hole to plate 6 and repaired 550 mm tear to supplementary plate, not affecting image, overall plates impressively clean). Modern red cloth covered folder, with gilt titled paper label; small red folder affixed to inside cover.
Bobins II, 779; Melon/Snelgrove pp.146-8; Schwerdt I, p.244 & IV, p.136; Siltzer p.158; Tooley 265: 'extremely rare'.
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