Returning Home (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 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (16.83 × 23.97 cm)
Image: 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 in. (11.75 × 18.42 cm)
85.1260.6
Not on view
Printed above image in center: FIELD SPORTS & PASTIMES. Printed above image upper right: Pl. 6. Printed beneath image lower left: B.T.Esqr.Delt. [Ben Tally-ho, pseudonym for Alken]. Printed beneath image in center: Returning Home. / "I told you they were red hot with drinking" / Shakespeare. / There is no place like Home. / London. Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket. [paper thinned, possibly scraped to remove data, probably date]. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 6. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 30" and "104".
Paul Mellon Collection
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