Symptoms of a first Voyage (Primary Title)
Symptoms (Series Title)

Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)

1822
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 11/16 in. (24.92 × 34.77 cm)
Plate: 8 3/16 × 10 5/16 in. (20.8 × 26.19 cm)
85.1268.32
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: "SYMPTOMS." Printed within image, upper center: "of a first Voyage"; upper left: "fit for the Home Station" and "Captain sais as how he is very bad"; upper right: "Fit for a Foreign Station"; lower left: "of taking in the trouble"; lower center: "of the Five Per Cents"; lower right: "of taking out the trouble" Printed beneath image, lower left: "H. Alken del et sc."; lower center: "London, Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, Haymarket, 1822." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 16 / 16A/1" and "52"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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