1817
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored aquatint with touches of etching and soft-ground etching on wove paper
Sheet (trimmed inside platemark): 10 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (26.67 × 30 cm)
Image: 8 11/16 × 10 15/16 in. (22.07 × 27.78 cm)
85.1264.2
Not on view
Printed beneath image lower left: Alken delin. Printed beneath image lower right: Sutherland fecit. Printed beneath image in center: BREAKING COVER. / Published Augt.12th.1817, by Thos. Palser, Surrey side Westmr. Bridge. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "524" (in circle); in center: "HRH/3 / 1/2" and "2"; lower right: "B[?]12622 / 4".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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