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Untitled sheet with gray horse with black mane and tail jumping a ditch in a bluff-filled landscape (Primary Title)
Rudiments for Drawing the Horse (Series Title)

After, Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
John Christian Zeitter, English, 1798 – 1862 (Engraver)

1837
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 1/2 in. (27.62 × 36.83 cm)
Plate: 8 1/2 × 11 7/16 in. (21.59 × 29.05 cm)
Image: 7 3/4 × 10 1/4 in. (19.69 × 26.04 cm)
Mat: 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1310.10
Not on view
Printed upper right: 10. Printed within image, lower left: "Drawn & Engraved by J.C. Zeitter." Printed beneath image, lower center: "London, Pubd. Jany.1st. 1837, by R. ACKERMANN, at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery,191 Regent St." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 16 / 39A", "104" and "3"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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