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Moments of Fancy (Primary Title)

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

1822
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
Recto: graphite and red chalk on thin wove paper; Verso: printing and manuscript ink
European Art
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 5/16 in. (24.92 × 33.81 cm)
Mount: 14 × 16 3/8 in. (35.56 × 41.59 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1146
Not on view
Print on verso (lithograph or soft ground etching?), annotated in ink. Artist has traced over printed images on recto.
Inscribed in ink on verso, upper left: "Past consideration"; upper center: "present consideration"; upper right: "future consideration"; center right: "Breaking out". Additional ink inscriptions along lower edge verso, illegible due to mount. Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower right: "H. ALKEN." Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount, lower right: "Glos. Coll. (HRH. 16- 41)."
Paul Mellon Collection
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