watercolour, pen and ink, over pencil, inscribed in brown ink verso Hengar Wood, W. Camelford, Cornwall, circa 1795, 21 x 27 cm. (8 1/4 x 10 5/8 in) Provenance: Private collection, UK. The current watercolour is directly comparable with Rowlandson's A Sportsman, possibly Rowlandson, with hounds setting out from Hengar House, Cornwall [cf. John Hayes, Rowlandson Watercolours and Drawings, 1972, repr. p. 19, fig. 6], and stylistically would appear to have been executed during the same stay at Hengar House. Hengar House, Cornwall, was the country estate of Matthew Michell (1751-1817), who apart from having 'an apparently insatiable appetite for Rowlandson's drawings, was [also] one of the artist's closest friends from the 1790s, until 1819, when he died', [John Hayes, Rowlandson Watercolours and Drawings, 1972, p. 7].