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How to Go Thro' an Overflow (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
European Art
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in. (33.66 × 42.55 cm)
Plate: 10 5/8 × 13 9/16 in. (26.99 × 34.45 cm)
Image: 8 13/16 × 12 3/8 in. (22.38 × 31.43 cm)
85.1312.5
Not on view
Printed above image upper right: Plate 5. Printed beneath image in center: HOW TO GO THRO' AN OVERFLOW./ London, Pub July 16. 1819, by S.& J.Fuller at their Sporting Gallery, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 14 / 3" and "9".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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