THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
Stag Hunting scene in a park
RCIN 913693
A watercolour of Lanhydrock gatehouse, Cornwall. The gatehouse was built between 1636 and 1651. In the foreground, a hunt passes by, consisting of six horsemen and women and a pack of hounds that are chasing a stag on the far left of the drawing. Rowlandson was a regular visitor to Cornwall, where his patron Mathew Michell had a house and where he made many topographical watercolours.
Bibliographic reference(s)
O(E) : Oppé, A.P., 1950. English Drawings in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London
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