Illustrations to Popular Songs (Primary Title)

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

1822
English
Works On Paper
Drawings
graphite over red chalk on wove paper
Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 11/16 in. (17.46 × 22.07 cm)
Mount: 9 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (25.08 × 29.85 cm)
Mat: 12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.75 × 48.26 cm)
85.933
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite in center: "Thus we ride whip and spur for a two hours chace/ our horses so panting and sobbing-" (?). Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Henry Alken" and another illegible inscription. Inscribed in graphite on mount, lower right: H.T. ALKEN 92.
Paul Mellon Collection
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