Background:

These whimsical sporting prints are from a biography of John Mytton, "formerly MP for Shewsbury, High Sheriff for the counties of Salop & Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry."  It was authored by his neighbor and friend who went by the pen name of Nimrod, and recounted his "eccentric and extravagant exploits" in Hunting, Shooting, Driving and Racing.  As Nimrod says in the Preface, "I shall unload the memory of man I shall never be ashamed to call my friend".  The engravings are based on the illustrations of Henry Alken and Thomas Rawlins.