Hunting dogs chasing a hare up a narrow path, urged on by their keepers and mounted huntsmen. Etching by W. Hollar after F. Barlow.
- Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704.
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The scene takes place outside a forest and most of the bloodhounds are still sniffing the ground for the scent of the hare when a man with a large stick hurries them up
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1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 15.2 x 21.7 cm
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Hare hunting. The timorous hare, when started from her seat, by blood hounds, to save her life soe sweet. With severall shifts, much terrour and great payne, yet dyes she by their mouths, all proves but vayne. F. Barlow inv. W. Hollar sculp.
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Wellcome Collection 41630i
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