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On and Over, How to Do the Thing Safe (Primary Title)

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

19th century
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
graphite and watercolor on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN/ 1820
European Art
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 12 15/16 in. (22.38 × 32.86 cm)
Mount: 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1122.1
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite lower center: On and over how to do the thing safe. Inscribed in graphite on verso: HRH 10-1. Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower right: H. ALKEN.
Paul Mellon Collection
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