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Going at a Swishing Pace (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 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (19.05 × 24.77 cm)
Plate: 5 7/16 × 7 13/16 in. (13.81 × 19.84 cm)
Image: 4 9/16 × 7 1/4 in. (11.59 × 18.42 cm)
85.1271.3
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: Going at a swishing pace. Printed beneath image in center: To go a swishing pace, you must be able to catch the hounds from a bad start, / and afterwards to keep with them./ Pubd. May 1825. by J. Dickinson, 114. New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 24. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "16A" (partially obscured by hinge) and "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "70"; lower center: "93" (?); lower right: "end".
Paul Mellon Collection
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