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Topping a Stile with a Foot Board (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
Soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 7/16 × 9 3/4 in. (18.89 × 24.77 cm)
Plate: 5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (13.97 × 19.84 cm)
Image: 4 5/8 × 7 1/4 in. (11.75 × 18.42 cm)
85.1271.11
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: Topping a stile with a foot board. Printed beneath image in center: This is a tip top shew,--being both difficult & dangerous, Courage will do for many things, / but for this you should be truly mad./ Pubd. May 1825, by J. Dickinson, 114, New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 8. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "17" (partially obscured by hinge) and "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "84" above "72" (struck through)
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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