LOT DETAILS

Materials:

engraving

Size Notes:

s: 358 x 262 mm

Markings:

watermark High Crown (M. 20)

Condition:

a superb, early Meder b impression, very rich and black, yet printing with astonishing clarity, with burr in the trees and elsewhere, with thread margins on three sides, trimmed on or just within the platemark below but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject, laid down along the edges onto an 18th century album sheet, a small surface abrasion on the muzzle of the second dog from the right, generally in very good, original condition

Provenance:

Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire (cf. L. 718 & 719); Christie's, London, Old Master Prints from Chatsworth, 5 December 1985, lot 12 (£190,000).