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The Easter Hunt at Epping Forest. Plate first (and) Plate Second.

  • ARTIST: Henry William Bunbury

  • MEDIUM: Etchings

    DATE: Undated, c.1800.

  • EDITION SIZE: Sheet size of each: 9 3/8 x 13" (21.2 x 33.2

  • DESCRIPTION: A pair of satirical scene of folks on horseback and carriage chasing an unseen stag.<br><br> The Epping Forest Stag Hunt was an annual event Easter Monday was a favourite of early 19th-century London East Enders, who would travel up to the woods to track down an elderly stag released from a cart. The event was banned in 1847. This pair of prints shows you Bunbury's comic take on it.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Sold as a pair.

  • CONDITION: Overall in good condition and with original hand coloring. Timed to neatline on top and side. Bother prints were at one time bound into a scrapbook with associated glue residue on verso.

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