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Putting Your Horse to a Brook (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 7/16 × 9 13/16 in. (18.89 × 24.92 cm)
Plate: 5 3/8 × 7 15/16 in. (13.65 × 20.16 cm)
Image: 4 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (11.43 × 18.42 cm)
85.1270.7
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: Putting your horse to a brook. Printed beneath image in center: This thing may appear very easy, but it requires determination both of Heart Head & Hand./ Pubd. May 1825, by J. Dickinson, 114. New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "77" (crossed through) and "86"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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