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Afternoon. Returning Home in Fine Trim. Doing the Most You Can (Primary Title)
Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done (Series Title)

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

1818
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored aquatint with touches of etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 3/16 in. (26.51 × 36.04 cm)
Plate: 7 15/16 × 9 9/16 in. (20.16 × 24.29 cm)
Image: 6 1/4 × 8 7/16 in. (15.88 × 21.43 cm)
85.1265.2
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: AFTERNOON. { Returning home. in fine Trim. / doing the most you can. / London Published April 5th.1818, by S.&J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 43. Inscribed in graphite on verso, in center: "HRH 12 / 9" and "39"; lower right: "end" and "11-".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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