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Getting over an Old Blind-Road Way... (Primary Title)
A Steeple Chase; or, A Cross-Country Match (Series Title)

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

1827
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / 1827
European Art
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 15 1/4 in. (28.42 × 38.74 cm)
Plate: 9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in. (24.13 × 31.43 cm)
Image: 7 5/8 × 10 7/8 in. (19.37 × 27.62 cm)
Other (matted): 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1307.2
Not on view
Signed in plate, in signpost, center left: H Alken
Printed above image upper center: A STEEPLE CHASE. Printed beneath image lower left: H. Alken, del. et sc. Printed beneath image in center: Plate 2. -- Getting over an Old blind-road way and doing it well, -- even betting./ Pubd. Janry. 1 1827, by S & J. Fuller, 34. Rathbone Place, London. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 14 / 18" and "95"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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