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An Almanac of Twelve Sports (Hunting)
William Nicholson (English, 1872–1949)
1897
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, color printing and hand coloring
Dimensions
Sheet: 41.5 x 34.5 cm (16 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Image: 19.9 x 20 cm (7 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Image: 19.9 x 20 cm (7 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Francis Bullard
Accession NumberM22343.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kleinstück 040
DescriptionEntry for January in "An Almanac of Twelve Sports By William Nicholson with words by Rudyard Kipling", New York: R. H. Russell, 1898 (MFA Library rare book collection, *934 .735 .67 .1)
Accompanying text:
Hunting.
Certes it is a noble sport
And men have quitted selle and swum for't,
But I am of a meeker sort
And I prefer Surtees in comfort.
Reach down my "Handley Cross" again,
My run, where never danger lurks, is
With Jorrocks and his deathless train --
Pigg, Binjimin and Arterxerxes!
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Accompanying text:
Hunting.
Certes it is a noble sport
And men have quitted selle and swum for't,
But I am of a meeker sort
And I prefer Surtees in comfort.
Reach down my "Handley Cross" again,
My run, where never danger lurks, is
With Jorrocks and his deathless train --
Pigg, Binjimin and Arterxerxes!
---
Signed
l.l. (in ink), "W. Nicholson"
ProvenancePDP Register entry: Date acquired, 6/1/1912 [exact to month]