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Grouse Shooting, The Wrong Sort (Primary Title)
Comparative Sporting (Series Title)

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

19th century
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 11 3/4 × 12 7/8 in. (29.85 × 32.7 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (21.59 × 26.99 cm)
85.1299.2
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: COMPARATIVE SPORTING. Printed beneath image lower left: H. ALKEN, Del. et Sculp. Printed beneath image in center: Published by Alken,15, Southampton Row, New Road, Edgware Road./ GROUSE SHOOTING, / THE WRONG SORT./ [left column]: I say Captain, how do you like / this Fox Hunting of Shooting?; [right column]: Why my dear Sir I cannot say it / is so entertaining as I anticipated. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "446" (in circle) and "13 / 11/2" (struck through); upper right: "HRH 14 / 33" and "143"; in center: "2."
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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