Fragments of an incomplete cartoon for cotton printing: La Course au Sanglier
The composition of this design for a textile, includes four hounds crossing a small stream; hunters with spears and dogs pursuing the chase in the vicinity of a memorial column; a hunter with a spear directing two hunting dogs to the scent; a hunter on horseback, seen from the back; three hunters on horseback, and one unmounted, with three hunting dogs attacking a wild boar.
Credit: Gift of Bridget Mahon
1785
Pen and black ink with gray washes on paper
1898-21-5-c
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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