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Topping a Flight of Rails and Coming into the Next Field... (Primary Title)
Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders (Series Title)
The Reverse of Sporting Phrases; from the Work entitled Indispensable Accomplishments (Alternate Title)

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

1815
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 1/8 in. (27.31 × 38.42 cm)
Plate: 8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (22.54 × 30.16 cm)
Image: 7 1/2 × 10 5/8 in. (19.05 × 26.99 cm)
85.1300.2
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: 2. Topping a flight of Rails and coming into the next Field, (but not well.) if you have / the slightest regard for your Neck it would be better to make this the last Stage./ London, Published 1st.Septr. 1815, by S & J.Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 2" and "5" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
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