Francis Barlow – A Doe and two Stags on a Hillside

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Etching, printed in black ink on laid paper after a drawing by Francis Barlow, etched by Francis Place and published by John Bowles. Produced ca. 1680-1700. Presented in a new mount.
Inscriptions: In lower margin lettered with production details ‘Fra: Barlow belin’, ‘Francis Place Fec:’, and ‘I: Bowles ex:’
The print is numbered in pencil 15 B.682 before the owner’s mark, stamped in black ink with a stag head and the letters B.G (below plate lower right). Lugt. 370, William A. Baillie Grohman.

Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (23.3 x 34.7 cm.)
Plate: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 in. (21 x 27.5 cm.)
Mount: 15 x 19 1/4 in. (38 x 49 cm.)

Description

Previous owners/ex-collection: William A. Baillie Grohman (1851-1921). Peter Ward-Jackson (1916-2015).

William Adolf Baillie Grohman (1851-1921), sportsman mountaineer and author, Lived: London and Mat-zen Castle, Brixlegg, Tyrol. Collected drawings and prints. He described his collection in his book Sport in Art. An Iconography of sport during four hundred years, London, 1913.

Peter Ward-Jackson (1916-2015) was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum and a leading authority on furniture, prints and drawings, particularly ornament designs.