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Flying a Difficulty (Primary Title)
You Shall See My Stud (Series Title)

Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)

1831
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper with a partial watermark: II
European Art
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 13 15/16 in. (26.99 × 35.4 cm)
Plate: 10 11/16 × 12 1/2 in. (27.15 × 31.75 cm)
Image: 8 5/8 × 11 in. (21.91 × 27.94 cm)
85.1278.2
Not on view
Printed above image, upper center: "FLYING A DIFFICULTY."; upper right: "Plate 2." Printed beneath image, lower left: "Hy. Alken, delt. et sculpt."; lower center: "A sweep at the new enclosure./ Published July 1st. 1831, by R. Ackermann, Junr. at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery,191 Regent Street." Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "MA" and "HRH 8 / 27"; in center: "2"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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