The head ranger and his fallow deer

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“George IV, dressed as a sportsman, in a broad-brimmed hat, jacket with many pockets, and gaiters above the knee, walks in Windsor Park beside a deer with a woman’s head and wearing a collar inscribed ‘Chester’. He puts his arm round her neck, and says, staring at her amorously, ‘”I’ll build you my Dear [altered to] deer a neat Cottage close by, | Where We can retreat unobserved, on the sly, | So be not afraid of the old Cunning Doe, | Whose stale selfish Tricks are become quite So-so.’ They are under a tree; bushes screen them from the Cottage (left), just below Windsor Castle on its steep hill.”–British Museum online catalogue.

  • Printmaker: Jones, Thomas Howell, active 1823-1848, printmaker.
  • Title: The head ranger and his fallow deer [graphic].
  • Publication: London : Pubd. 1829 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, [1829]

Catalog Record

829.00.00.114+

Acquired November 2020

A collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle

[Cover] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle

[Selection 1] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle

[Selection 2] collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Windsor Castle

Collection of proofs for fourteen illustrations for William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle, all but the first trimmed and laid into larger sheets; all are double-ruled in blue and red ink. The first plate “Plan of Windsor Castle 1843” has been mounted on the sheet and ruled in red and blue ink and serves as a title page: “Windsor Castle. A Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth.”. The leaves are numbered in blue ink beginning with 56 and ending with 69. Each leave is titled at the head “Windsor Castle” and eleven of the prints are captioned below. One caption has been erased, and the other two are blank.
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  • Author: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker.
  • Title: [A collection of proofs for William Harrison Ainsworth’s novel Windsor Castle], [ca. 1843].
  • Published: [England, 1843]

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Acquired July, 2011 by the Lewis Walpole Library.