Atkinson, John Augustus (London 1775 – after 1818/33 or even 1861). Shooting a White Hare at Tornio. A falcon just swooping down on the fugitive hare during two hunters wait in a fir-thicket. That's all before pointed icebergs. Aquatint by M. Dubourg (before 1786 – after 1838) in its  original  colouring. Inscribed: Atkinson del. / Published & Sold Feb^y. 1^st. 1813, by Edw^d. Orme, Bond St. London. / M. Dubourg sculp^t., otherwise as before. 18 x 23.2 cm.

Tooley 225, 79; Thieme-Becker II, 212; Nagler I, 179 f. ( “excellent English painter and draughtsman living in Russia for a long time who worked wonderfull pictures” ). – From the 1819 2^nd edition of FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS , Schwerdt I (1928), 177 ff.: “The coloured plates … are fine, both as regards draughtsmanship and colouring … (The book) is sure to increase in value … ”.
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