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)
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 lower left: 16. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "81"
Paul Mellon Collection
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