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Banging along the Road 16 Miles an Hour... (Primary Title)
Sporting Discoveries; or The Miseries of Driving (Series Title)

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

1820 or later
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/16 in. (28.26 × 38.58 cm)
Plate: 9 1/8 × 12 1/8 in. (23.18 × 30.8 cm)
Image: 7 7/16 × 10 3/8 in. (18.89 × 26.35 cm)
85.1301.5
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: Banging along the road 16 miles an hour, with a very dashing Tandum, your leader comes down, and you DISCOVER a new way / of bringing your Equipage into a small compass./ London Pub. Jany. 1 1817, by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 16" and "63" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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