The artist has taken great pains with the trees and rich foliage which grace this view. The pack have come up with the fox, and the huntsmen are in 'at the death.'
Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):
One of 32 prints bound in "Rowlandson's Book: Sketches and Studies, Tomas Rowlandson sculp, 1789. Gainsborough, Barrett, Gilpin, Wheatly Wigstead, Rowlandson delin." This volume was Rowlandson's own copy. Page 21. On the same sheet as "A person and dog sitting by trees."
