A Painful Discovery (Primary Title)
Sporting Discoveries; or The Miseries of Shooting (Series Title)

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

1822 or later
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1822
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 15/16 in. (27.62 × 37.94 cm)
Plate: 8 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (22.54 × 30.16 cm)
Image: 6 7/8 × 10 5/16 in. (17.46 × 26.19 cm)
Other (matted): 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1302.6
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: A PAINFUL DISCOVERY. / Hearing your Dog call out lustily on the other side of a Fence, you make all speed / towards him, supposing him caught in a Virmin [sic] trap, but on steping [sic] over the Hedge/ you Discover, to your no small pain your Leg in one of much larger dimensions./ London, Published Feby. 1st, 1816, by S & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "Watermark / 1822"; in center: "HRH 12 / 13A" and "51" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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