Love's Stratagem: engraving of riders and hounds in a field – Historic Reproduction
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Description
A window into the past: Love's Stratagem: engraving of riders and hounds in a field, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Love's Stratagem: engraving of riders and hounds in a field
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Titled *Love's Stratagem*, this engraving shows riders and hounds gathered in an open field, and the title suggests the hunt is a pretext for courtship rather than the real subject. Hunting scenes like this were a staple of European printmaking, where a sporting setting gave artists a familiar frame for flirtation, rivalry and display. Engravings were reproduced in multiples, so pictures like this reached ordinary households as well as the walls of the wealthy. Its place on this Valentine's Day board suits the picture's romantic theme.
| Original scan | 8,616 × 6,165 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | VAL-8 |
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