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Benjamin Marshall
Colonel Henry Campbell Shooting on a Moor, ca. 1806
The Game Act, passed by the English Parliament in 1671, restricted game hunting to only the wealthiest landowners. Such limitations caused a plentiful supply of game; landowners employed gamekeepers to watch over their land and handed out stiff punishments for poaching. Here Marshall depicts landowner Colonel Henry Campbell shooting on a northern moor. The Campbell family was known for their well-known "Kingston" breed of pointers, as evidenced by the dog in the left foreground that is correctly "backing off" the quarry so as not to get too far ahead of the rest of the party. |