A Horse! A Horse! My Kingdom for a Horse! (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
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 11/16 in. (26.35 × 37.31 cm)
Plate: 8 1/2 × 10 9/16 in. (21.59 × 26.83 cm)
Image: 7 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (20.16 × 25.56 cm)
85.1267.5
Not on view
Printed within image upper left: A Horse! A Horse! / my Kingdom for a Horse! Printed within image lower right: I don't know nothing about that ere __ but here's one you shall have for Forty shillings. 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 "96".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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