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Now Renard Turn'd Out (Primary Title)
The High Mettled Racer (Series Title)

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

1828
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 15 in. (27.78 × 38.1 cm)
Plate: 6 9/16 × 8 3/4 in. (16.67 × 22.23 cm)
Image: 3 5/16 × 4 7/8 in. (8.41 × 12.38 cm)
85.1315.4
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: "THE HIGH METTLED RACER."; upper right: "PL. 4." Printed beneath image lower left: "Hy. Alken, Delt."; lower center: "Now Renard turn'd out, and o'er hedge and ditch rush, / Men, Horses, and Dogs, who are hard at his brush; / O'er heath and hill moorland led by the sly prey, / By scent and by view create a long tedious way. / When alike born for joys of the field and the course, / Always sure to come through a staunch and fleet horse; / And when fairly run down the fox yields his breath, / The high Mettled racer is in at the death./ London, Published by Thos. Mc.Lean, 26. Haymarket, 1828." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "443" (in circle), "HRH/3 / 29/2", "George Birch Reynard Fox" (struck through) and "4".
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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