Fishing Satire - Cats Fishing.- Seymour (Robert) Waltonizing or - Green-land Fisherman, etching by "Shortshanks" (Seymour), original hand-colouring, sheet 245 x 340 mm (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in), mounted on paper support, trimmed to borderline, unframed, published by Thomas McLean, [circa 1830]; together with two hand-coloured lithographs of anthropomorphised cats fishing by Seymour, Angling-Capital Sport and Angling - No Sport at All, with an uncoloured duplicate of the latter, each approx. 218 x 295 mm (8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in), surface dirt, spotting, handling creases, unframed, published by William Spooner, [circa 1830s] (4).
Literature:
Beazley, David, Images of Angling. Three Centuries of British Angling Prints, Creel Press, 2010, nos. 89-91
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