Beschreibung:

Attributed to John Bell (active 1750-1780). Landscape with a Hunt and Man with Telescope by a Water Well, circa 1750's, original woodcut printing block carved on boxwood showing a huntsman blowing a horn and running with dogs chasing a stag, a man looking through a telescope seated next to a well, city skyline in the background, narrow foliage border around the scene, signature 'J. Bell' to lower right corner of printed area, 19th century ink inscription to side reading 'by Bell after W. Hogarth', surface size 45 x 121 mm, accompanied with an impression taken from the block on modern good-quality handmade paper (Quantity: 1) An almost identical version, but without the decorative border as seen in this example, appears as a headpiece to the contents page of Stephen Switzer's An Universal System Of Water and Water-Works: Philosophical and Practical.., London: Thomas Cox, 1754.