Nº 30
Reading edition
John Lewis Brown FRENCH: 1829-1890
THE FALCONERS
Height, 9½ inches; width, 7 inches
In an open glade in a great park or forest a small party of mounted falconers have been enjoying their hunt. One of them, who has been riding a white horse, has dismounted, and is conversing with a friend, apparently the host of the occasion, who, with a gesture of authority, is giving directions about the hunt. Beyond the horsemen stands an attendant in gay livery, carrying three of the hooded birds upon a perch, and behind the group a clump of trees in dense foliage rises high against a clouded sky through which the sunlight bursts and falls strongly upon the landscape.
Signed at the lower right,
John Lewis Brown, 1875.