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Getting Over (Primary Title)
Hunting Qualifications (Series Title)

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

1829
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1829
European Art
Sheet: 11 × 15 in. (27.94 × 38.1 cm)
Plate: 9 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (24.77 × 32.39 cm)
Image: 6 1/2 × 10 in. (16.51 × 25.4 cm)
85.1309.4
Not on view
Printed above image, upper center: "HUNTING QUALIFICATIONS."; upper right: "Plate 4." Printed beneath image, lower left: "Drawn & Engraved by H. Alken."; lower center: "GETTING OVER./ London. Published Augt. 1st. 1829, by R. Ackermann, Junr. 191, Regent Street." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 20 / 23A /2"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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