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Two Gentlemen Going a Shooting, with a View of Creswell Crags, Taken on the Spot
George Stubbs British
Not on view
As the dawn rises with a rosy glow on an autumn day and the dew sparkles on the grass, two gentlemen accompanied by their pointers prepare for the hunt. The present work is the first of a series of four “shooting pictures” depicting the progression of a day’s field sport. Exhibited successively from 1767 to 1770 at London’s Society of Artists (with titles as here by Stubbs), the paintings were so popular that they were engraved as a set. The steep limestone cliffs are Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire on the estate of Stubbs’s patron, the third Duke of Portland.