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Here is a neat 19th Century Color Lithograph of a Hunting Scene Advertising Eley’s Sporting Ammunition that I picked up at the last Holts auction.

It is one of the few Posters like this I have come across that prominently mentions pinfire cartridges (my specialty).

I wrote a little article on it and talk about some interesting aspects of their catalog listing that is printed on the back.

https://aaronnewcomer.com/a-19th-ce...e-advertising-eleys-sporting-ammunition/

It’s deja vu all over again!

Thanks for that reference! I bought a copy. (Edit: Looks like this Eley one is slightly different though past the first glance. I wonder if he created it just for the poster many years later?)

Apparently there is a whole website dedicated to this artist! They describe him as
https://harrisonweir.com/

Very nice, thanks!

Cheers,
Jani

I had the same initial response, "deja vu". But, as I looked more, the differences between the two litho's, are substantial. The poses of the gunners (and dogs), the landscape in the background, and the distinction (or lack) between foreground, middle ground, and background (note the transition from corp to heath in the B&W). The understanding and presentation of the dogs' anatomy is also quite different.

Aaron, thanks for your Eley pictures and the address to your fine article. I wondered about the foliage the dogs were hunting in in each illustration. Unlike anything I hunt in. I have heard of heather, so could that be it ?

Heather is a whipsy type grass like fescue. The images look like they're hunting in a cabbage patch.

The Crop is called generically Roots. Typically Turnips, Mangelwurzels, Sugar Beets, Rutabagas or occasionally Parsnips. The cycle went like this, allow the cattle to graze the tops off before frost kill Then lift them, cart them back to the home farm, store them, often in mounds with a covering of earth to prevent frost damage [clamping]. Dig out what you needed and feed to the yarded cattle as needed. Part of Turnip Townshends four crop rotation.
I love the look of wide eyed terror in the Eley Dogs eyes, must have realized they'd pointed a cobra!

I think that in the earlier thread the consensus was that it was most likely to be Turnips.

You can see the vegetables in the very bottom of the scene below the partridges. They seem pretty big so I would go with rutabagas over the other options presented.