The Devon and Somerset Staghounds

The Devon and Somerset Staghounds prints and pictures listed below, represent a small selection of the many Stag and Hind Hunting paintings available. If you can’t see the Devon and Somerset Staghounds hunting print listed then please contact us on 07889 800857

The deer of Exmoor have been hunted since Norman times, when Exmoor was declared a Royal Forest. Collyns stated the earliest actual record of a pack of staghounds on Exmoor was 1598. In 1803 the “North Devon Staghounds” became a subscription pack. In 1824/5 30 couples of hounds, the last of the true staghounds, were sold to a baron in Germany. Today, the Devon and Somerset is one of three staghounds packs in the UK, the others being the Quantock Staghounds and the Tiverton Staghounds. All packs hunt within Devon and Somerset

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