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At a Brook with the Rail to You (Primary Title)
Alken's Characteristic Sketches of Hunting and Sporting (Series Title)

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

1825
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (19.05 × 24.92 cm)
Plate: 5 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (14.92 × 22.54 cm)
Image: 4 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (11.43 × 18.42 cm)
85.1270.8
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: At a Brook with the rail to you. Printed beneath image in center: Find it impossible to act as you did going to cover, make the best you can of it the character of seat / is but of little consequence, at a leap of this sort to hold on being everything./ Pubd. June 1825. by J Dickinson.114.New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "87"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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