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Standing It Miserable (Primary Title)
Indispensable Accomplishments: Or Hints to City Gentlemen (Series Title)

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

1824 or later
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored aquatint with touches of etching on wove paper with a watermark: FELLOWS / 1824
European Art
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark.): 11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (29.53 × 44.45 cm)
Image: 9 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. (23.5 × 31.75 cm)
85.1305.3
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: London, Published & Sold Jany. 28th. 1815, by EDWD ORME, Bond St. corner of Brook St. / INDISPENSABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, OR HINTS TO CITY GENTLEMEN. / Plate III. / STANDING IT MISERABLE. / Riding out of Town a few miles, with great difficulty, your mind occupied with the dash you intend to / make, as you pass your female acquaintance, coming from church; when, just as they appear, you / find your whip in fragments, & your charger perfectly broken winded, and dead flesh'd. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "W/M -- 1824" and "HRH 14 / 21A"; in center: "103"
Paul Mellon Collection
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