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Doing the Thing Well--Giving Dribblers the Go Bye (Primary Title)
Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done (Series Title)

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

1818
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored aquatint with very few touches of etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 1/4 in. (26.51 × 36.2 cm)
Plate: 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25.08 cm)
Image: 6 5/16 × 8 3/4 in. (16.03 × 22.23 cm)
85.1265.3
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: Doing the Thing well -- Giving Dribblers the go bye. / London Published March 2, 1818. by S.&J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 21. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 8A" and "28".
Paul Mellon Collection
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