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BARENGER, James (1780-1831). British Feather Game. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1810.
14 mezzotints, printed in colour and finished by hand, by Charles Turner after Barenger, 378 x 435mm platemark; 434 x 542mm sheets. Bound in contemporary red half morocco, marbled boards (endpapers and tissue guards renewed). Provenance: acquired at Hamill and Barker, 1936.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE COMPLETE SET. James Barenger was the son of a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813. His maternal uncle was William Woollett, the eminent engraver. Barenger obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death in 1831. Watermarked J. Whatman 1809. Siltzer, p. 79.
14 mezzotints, printed in colour and finished by hand, by Charles Turner after Barenger, 378 x 435mm platemark; 434 x 542mm sheets. Bound in contemporary red half morocco, marbled boards (endpapers and tissue guards renewed). Provenance: acquired at Hamill and Barker, 1936.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE COMPLETE SET. James Barenger was the son of a chaser, who exhibited water-colour drawings of insects at the Royal Academy between the years 1793 and 1799, and died in 1813. His maternal uncle was William Woollett, the eminent engraver. Barenger obtained some celebrity as a painter of racehorses, dogs, deer, and other animals, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1807 until his death in 1831. Watermarked J. Whatman 1809. Siltzer, p. 79.
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