How to Take Your Leap (Primary Title)
How to Qualify for a Meltonian (Series Title)

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

1819
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILLS / 1817
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in. (33.66 × 42.55 cm)
Plate: 10 5/8 × 13 5/8 in. (26.99 × 34.61 cm)
Image: 8 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (22.23 × 31.43 cm)
85.1312.4
Not on view
Printed above image upper right: Plate 4. Printed beneath image in center: HOW TO TAKE YOUR LEAP./ London, Pub July 16. 1819, by S.& J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "14 / 2" and "7"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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