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Give Me Another Horse--Bind Up My Wounds--The Lights Burn Blue-- (Primary Title)
Humourous Miscellanies (Series Title)

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

1823
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 14 5/8 in. (26.19 × 37.15 cm)
Plate: 8 1/2 × 10 9/16 in. (21.59 × 26.83 cm)
Image: 7 13/16 × 10 in. (19.84 × 25.4 cm)
85.1267.6
Not on view
Printed within image upper right: Give me another Horse__ bind up my wounds__ / The lights burn blue__. Printed within image lower left: Vy_ that ere's the Moon, mix'd with Gash_light. Printed within image lower left: Hy. Alken. Delt. Printed beneath image in center: London. Published by Thos. Mc.Lean; Repository of Wit & Humour, 26, Haymarket. 1823. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 28" and "97".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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