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Foreign Field Sports: The Bear Triap Aquatint by Dubourg, Merke & Howitt, 1813
$270 (£205, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1813
- Size
- 8.7 × 13 in (22.2 × 33 cm)
- Condition
- In good condition given age. General age related toning due to age and handling. Some brown spots outside the image in the border area. Please study scan carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_40469692
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.
