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Hawking party

Maker

(artist)
1622-1702

Title

Hawking party

Date of Production

1683 - 1684

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, framed with brown ink lines

Dimensions

Height: 30.1 cm
Width: 21.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2098

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

This drawing was made in preparation for an engraving entitled 'Maning Hawks', illustrating Richard Blome's 'Gentleman's Recreation', first published in 1686. It shows, in the background, dogs being used to flush out birds such as partridges or pigeons, and, in the foreground, a hawk with its kill. Manuals such as this taught the English gentry and aristocracy to exploit the element of air through the mastery of hunting animals such as dogs and birds of prey.

Provenance

Sotheby's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) with D.1952.RW.2097 by 1934; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

The Age of Charles II, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1960-1961 ...More

British Life, New Burlington Galleries, London, 29/05/1953-11/07/1953

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

British-born artists of the seventeenth century, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1938

British country life through the centuries, 39 Grosvenor Square, London, 1937

An exhibition of sport in British Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1934

The Reign of Charles II, London & England, 01/01/1932-01/03/1932 ...Less

Literature

Flis, Nathan, From the life: the art of Francis Barlow (c.1626-1704), PhD thesis, University of Oxford 2012, available online: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3805d2ad-18b5-4f23-a73d-e720a44107de
p. 594
fig. 369
dated 1683-84

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 1

The Age of Charles II, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1960-61
cat. no. 552 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 4

British Life, New Burlington Galleries, London, 1953, Arts Council
no. 6

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951
cat. no. 1

Hussey, Christopher, British Country Life in Art, London: Country Life, 1937
p. 34

British country life through the centuries, 39 Grosvenor Square, London, 1937
ill. on p. 34

M. T. Ritchie (ed.), English drawings: an anthology, London: Chatto & Windus, 1935
pl. 6

Shaw Sparrow, Walter, 'Francis Barlow. His Country Life and Field Sports', Apollo XIX, January 1934, pp. 25-29
ill. on p. 26

Shaw Sparrow, Walter, A Book of Sporting Painters, London, 1931
p. 53

Blome, Richard. The gentlemans recreation. London, 1710
book 2, p. 94 (engraved) ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily above monogram “WR”.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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