[Untitled plate with several inscribed vignettes] (Primary Title)
Moments of Fancy (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed above images upper center: MOMENTS OF FANCY. Printed above vignette, upper center: "There is a pleasure in being Mad which none but madmen know. / Vide an Irish Fancy."; upper right: "I likes to see them best." Printed beneath vignette lower left: "Some men to business some to pleasure take. / Some their troubles, some their fortunes make." Printed above image lower right: "A Carriage & Four." Printed beneath images lower left: Hy. Alken, Delt. Printed beneath image in center: London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean: Repository of Wit & Humour, 26. Haymarket,1822." Inscribed in graphite on verso: HRH 16 / 42/ 1.
Paul Mellon Collection
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