?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GEORGE STUBBS Freeman, Keeper to the Earl of Clarendon, with a Hound and a Wounded Doe.
Color mezzotint, 1804. 405x510 mm; 16x201/8 inches, small to wide margins. Second state (of 2). Published by Orme, London. Expertly repaired v-shaped tear upper center in the dark background, visible mainly on the verso. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print.
Lennox-Boyd note only 4 extant impressions in the first state of this print and we have not found another impression of the second state at auction in the past 20 years. Lennox-Boyd 145.
