(Foxhunting) King, Edward

American Hunting Scenes. The Check

Hand-colored aquatint engraving, within a watercolor border at edge of platemark. Signed by the artist lower left. Plate size 19 x 12-1/2 inches on a larger sheet of handmade paper, overall dimensions 25 x 18-1/2, New York: The Derrydale Press, 1929. First and only edition of 250 signed proofs (unnumbered). Some chipping at margins. Near fine.

These are, notes Ordeman, "the first aquatints depicting contemporary American foxhunting scenes ever published ... ‘The First Flight’ was the first print published, and it was only after it had proven popular that Mr. Connett issued the three prints that completed the set." The Check, depicting six huntsmen in an autumn landscape, beside a field where hounds are casting for scent, was the third in the series Ordeman (2005) pp. 60-61.

Item #247886       Price: $750.00