The very Essence of Middlesex Sport (Primary Title)
Caricatures of Middlesex Sporting (Series Title)

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

1826
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 3/4 in. (18.73 × 24.77 cm)
Plate: 5 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. (14.92 × 23.81 cm)
Image: 4 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (11.43 × 18.73 cm)
85.1275.6
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: The very Essence of Middlesex Sport. Printed beneath image in center: Pubd. Jan. 1826 by J. Dickinson, 114. New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 12. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "HRH 14 / 15"; in center: "67"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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