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Learning to Drive Tandem (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 with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1823
European Art
Sheet: 10 5/16 × 14 5/8 in. (26.19 × 37.15 cm)
Plate: 8 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (21.91 × 26.99 cm)
Image: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.48 × 25.4 cm)
85.1267.2
Not on view
Printed within image upper center: Learning to drive Tandem. 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 / 27" and "93".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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