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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
Soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 11/16 in. (19.05 × 24.61 cm)
Plate: 5 7/16 × 7 3/4 in. (13.81 × 19.69 cm)
Image: 4 11/16 × 7 1/4 in. (11.91 × 18.42 cm)
85.1271.7
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 lower left: 10. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "17A" (partially obscured by hinge) and "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "71" (crossed through) and "80"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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