Going to Cover. L'Entree du Bois.
Date1750-1780
After work by
James Seymour
1702 - 1752
Publisher
Robert Sayer (1725-1794)
OriginEngland, London
MediumEtching with line engraving and period color
DimensionsPlate: 10" x 14".
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1958-362,4
DescriptionLower margin reads: "J. Seymour pinx.t/ Smith sculp./ GOING TO COVER./ L'ENTREE DU BOIS./ London, Printed for Robt Sayer Map & Printseller, at the Golden Buck near Sarjeants Inn, Fleet Street."Label TextHunters and their hounds are making across a clearing into a wooded area on the trail of a fox.The rest of the set: 1958-362,1; 1958-362-2; 1958-362, 4; & 1958-362,5.
ProvenanceBefore 1958, the Old Print Shop (New York, NY); 1958-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
George Bickham
1795 (from earlier plate Ca. 1755)
