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Throwing Off... (Primary Title)
Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport (Series Title)
Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport, by Three Real Good Ones, from the East End, and without Seeing a Hound. (Alternate Title)

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

Date:

1823

Culture:

English

Category:

Works On Paper
Prints

Medium:

Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1822

Collection:

European Art

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 7/16 × 16 1/2 in. (29.05 × 41.91 cm)
Plate: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4 in. (25.08 × 34.93 cm)
Image: 8 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (21.59 × 31.75 cm)

Object Number:

85.1304.2

Location:

Not on view

Additional Information

Signature:

Signed in plate lower left: H A

Inscription:

Printed beneath image in center: "HUNTING, or Six Hours Sport."; upper right: "PL. 2." Printed beneath image lower left: "Hy. Alken. Delt."; lower center: "Throwing off.......9, o'clock.....not so easy./ London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean; Repository of Wit & Humour. 26. Haymarket, 1823." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 14 / 7" and "23"

Credit Line:

Paul Mellon Collection

Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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Throwing Off... (Primary Title)Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport (Series Title)Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport, by Three Real Good Ones, from the East End, and without Seeing a Hound. (Alternate Title)

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

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Throwing Off... (Primary Title)
Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport (Series Title)
Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport, by Three Real Good Ones, from the East End, and without Seeing a Hound. (Alternate Title)