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One of the Wrong Sort, Who Goes Out with Hunters Because It Is the Fashion (Primary Title)

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

ca. 1820
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored aquatint with touches of etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet (Trimmed inside platemark.): 10 11/16 × 13 in. (27.15 × 33.02 cm)
Image: 9 1/16 × 11 9/16 in. (23.02 × 29.37 cm)
85.1263.2
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: ONE OF THE WRONG SORT, / Who goes out with hunters because it is the fashion. / "Confound the Snow is not hunting bad enough without this; but there's one comfort we shall not be / able to go out again for some time." Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: "506" (in circle) and "HRH 8 / 32"; upper right: "Hunting / ca. 1820"; in center: "37" (in circle) and "2" (underlined).
Paul Mellon Collection
Catching Sight: The World of British Sporting Print, VMFA, August 31, 2013 - July 13, 2014
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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