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Breaking Cover... (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)

1823
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 5/16 in. (29.21 × 41.43 cm)
Plate: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4 in. (25.08 × 34.93 cm)
Image: 8 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (21.75 × 31.75 cm)
85.1304.3
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: "HUNTING,....or Six Hours Sport."; upper right: "PL. 3." Printed beneath image, lower left: "Hy. Alken. Delt."; lower center: "Breaking Cover.....10, o'clock....Rather difficult./ London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean; Repository of Wit & Humour. 26, Haymarket. 1823." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 14 / 8A" and "24"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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