The Shot (Primary Title)
Field Sports and Pastimes (Series Title)

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

ca. 1850
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching and aquatint on wove paper
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 in. (26.99 × 35.56 cm)
Plate: 6 9/16 × 9 3/8 in. (16.67 × 23.81 cm)
Image: 4 5/8 × 7 5/16 in. (11.75 × 18.57 cm)
85.1260.3
Not on view
Printed above image in center: FIELD SPORTS & PASTIMES. Printed above image upper right: Pl. 3. Printed beneath image lower left: B.T. Esqr. Delt. [Ben Tally-ho, pseudonym for Alken]. Printed beneath image in center: The Shot. / "That like a Pig" each cried in Scoff, / Pshaw! nonsense! Blockheads! Off, Off, Off"!-- / London. Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket. [paper thinned, possibly scraped to remove data, probably date]. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 3; on verso in center: "HRH 12 / 30A" and "101".
Paul Mellon Collection
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