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Breaking up the Most Expensive Part of Your Establishment... (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 1/16 × 15 3/16 in. (28.1 × 38.58 cm)
Plate: 9 1/8 × 12 1/8 in. (23.18 × 30.8 cm)
Image: 7 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (19.05 × 26.67 cm)
85.1301.7
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: Breaking up the most expensive part of your Establishment, the last DISCOVERY but one Viz. a five and forty foot Gravel Pitt / on your off side./ London Pub. Jany. 1.1817. by S. & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 17" and "66" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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