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HILLS, Robert.

ETCHINGS. DEER AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

1797-1816

11 parts in 3 volumes. 433 copperplates. Finely bound in contemporary style half calf, marbled boards and endpapers; gilt titles, top edges gilt. The occasional plates are foxed - some heavily - but the majority are very clean. Super Royal Folio. Vol I: Cattle: 200 figures on 105 plates. Dogs: 55 figures on 25 plates. Pigs: 36 figures on 16 plates. Vol II: Sheep: 100 figures on 44 plates. Asses & Mules: 79 figures on 45 plates. Cattle in groups: 95 figures on 54 plates. Vol III: Fallow deer: 80 figures on 53 plates. Red deer: 68 figures on 45 plates. Roe deer: 13 figures on 9 plates. Goats: 8 figures on 4 plates. Horses: 49 figures on 33 plates. Robert Hills (1769-1844) was a noted painter of animals, chiefly deer, sheep, and cattle, and probably the most prolific etcher of the same. 783 FIGURES ON 433 PLATES IN TOTAL. Over the past 30 years, Hills etchings have rarely appeared at auction; mostly these have been small selections of the total. The quality of Hill's work is quite outstanding. A complete collection such as this is rarely encountered.

£6500.00