Frankland, Robert, attributed to

4to (315 x 265mm.), 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates (c.180 x 220mm.) captioned in pencil and window mounted, no text, modern red half morocco, lettered on upper cover and spine "Frankland - Sporting Miseries - 1806", t.e.g.

Harry Twyford Peters (1881-1948), American sportsman, sporting print collector and author, bookplate (sale in these rooms, 30 January 1961, lot 574)

good condition
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RARE. The author, title and date are taken from the cover of the book, which we have been unable to trace. The prints are captioned in pencil as follows: 1. Shooting miseries - All in the wrong; 2. A slight shock; 3. Courage cooled; 4. Innocent sport; 5. Queer feelings; 6. Within an inch

Robert Frankland (1784-1849) was a gifted amateur artist, and contemporary of Henry Alken, who published a small number of works. This set of amusing shooting incidents may be compared with his Eight Representations of Shooting, 1813 (see Schwerdt I, p.186, and pl.64) and Alken's Sporting Discoveries, or, the Miseries of Shooting, 1816 (Schwerdt I, p.23, and pl.14).