Text page for "Getting Over" (Primary Title)
Hunting Qualifications (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed on front: "GETTING OVER. / HAVING succeeded in getting into the park, you may safely calculate / on having something to do in getting out. A spiked gate, by the Lord / Harry ! If you pull up at it you are thrown out. Thefirst fence having / acted as a sieve to keep back the dross, this will serve for a bolter, / which none but the most refined can pass. / [verse] None but the lucky few / Who thus the thing can do, / And take the lead / In time of need, / O'er fences and ditches so high and so wide, / The Devil himself would not venture to stride, / Unless he'd been enter'd and made Qualified."
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 20 / 23A /1"
Paul Mellon Collection
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