English huntsman and lady watching a fox swim across a river, 19th century. Facey Romford raising his hat and shouting while Mrs Lucy Somerville sits sidesaddle on her mount. The view. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees’ Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1865. Leech (1817-1864) was an English caricaturist and illustrator best known for his work for Punch magazine.

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