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Symptoms of doing the outside Edge (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 / 1822
European Art
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 13 5/8 in. (24.92 × 34.61 cm)
Plate: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.69 × 24.77 cm)
85.1268.4
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: "SYMPTOMS"; Printed within image, upper left: "of doing the outside Edge"; upper right: "of doing the insid [sic] Edge"; lower left: "of a stop"; lower right: "of getin [sic] over a fence." Printed beneath image lower left: "Henry Alken delt. et sculpt."; lower center: "London, Published by Thomas Mc.Lean, Hay Market, 1822." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 16 / 9A/2" and "29"
Paul Mellon Collection
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