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Symptoms of a Wild One tamed (Primary Title)
Symptoms (Series Title)

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

1822
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper with a watermark: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1821
European Art
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 3/4 in. (24.92 × 34.93 cm)
Plate: 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25.08 cm)
85.1268.28
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: "SYMPTOMS." Printed within image, upper left: "of a Wild One tamed."; upper right: "of a Wild One."; lower left: "of 'there's the rub.'"; lower right: "of an uncertainty." Printed beneath image, lower left: "H.Alken del et sc."; lower center: "London, Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, Haymarket, 1822." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 16 / 18/1" and "59"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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