Foreign Field Sports: The Bear Triap Aquatint by Dubourg, Merke & Howitt, 1813

1813 · Views & Engravings

Foreign Field Sports: The Bear Triap Aquatint by Dubourg, Merke & Howitt, 1813

Name: Foreign Field Sports: The Bear Triap Aquatint by Dubourg, Merke & Howitt, 1813
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13740-2
Price: 270 USD
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Date: 1813
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 22.2 × 33 cm (8.7 × 13 in)
Period: The Early Republic
Reference: BG-13740-2

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Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

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Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The Bear Trap, an original hand-colored aquatint from Foreign Field Sports, published in London by Edward Orme and dated 1813. The plate is lettered "The Bear Trap" at the foot, with the credit "Howitt del." at the lower left and the engravers' names at the right.

A bear has fallen into a pit covered with interlaced branches and lies on its back among the twigs, jaws open, with a small red vessel beside it. Above and to the right, a second bear looks down over the edge of a sandy ledge, its mouth also open. Trees with gray-green and ochre foliage frame the scene on both sides, and the soft tones of the aquatint give the forest a misty light.

Foreign Field Sports, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. gathered hunting scenes from many countries, drawn largely from the sketches of travelers and engraved by Dubourg and Merke after Howitt, with the figures and animals colored by hand. The plate gives no place name, and the old description does not locate the scene.

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