[Untitled plate with several inscribed vignettes] (Primary Title)
Moments of Fancy (Series Title)

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

1822
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (26.99 × 39.37 cm)
Plate: 9 13/16 × 13 13/16 in. (24.92 × 35.08 cm)
Image: 9 3/8 × 13 3/8 in. (23.81 × 33.97 cm)
85.1266.12
Not on view
Printed above images upper center: MOMENTS OF FANCY. Printed above vignette, upper left: "How dangerous it is that this man goes loose. (Shakespear.)"; upper right: "There a Hoss, & something like a Hoss; (Milton.)"; lower left: "Does he go in harness? / I think he will; few like him." Printed beneath vignette lower left: "Backward & forward the thing's just the same." Printed above vignette lower right: "Are his feet good? / You never felt such in all your life.(Milton.)" Printed beneath images lower left: Hy. Alken, Delt. Printed beneath image in center: London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean; Repository of Wit & Humour, 26, Haymarket,1822. Illegible ink inscription lower right corner. Inscribed in graphite on verso: HRH 16 / 43 / 2.
Paul Mellon Collection
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