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A Troublesome Discovery (Primary Title)
Sporting Discoveries; or The Miseries of Shooting (Series Title)

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

1820 or later?
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 11 × 15 in. (27.94 × 38.1 cm)
Plate: 8 15/16 × 11 13/16 in. (22.7 × 30 cm)
Image: 6 7/8 × 10 1/4 in. (17.46 × 26.04 cm)
Other (matted): 16 × 22 in. (40.64 × 55.88 cm)
85.1302.5
Not on view
Printed beneath image in center: A TROUBLESOME DISCOVERY. / Having taken out a Brace of Pointers for a Day on Trial, you almost carry them to the Place of sport.(Highaway) at the corner / of a Heath you have a fine stand, and back; then draw eagerly on, you Discover a Brood of Turkeys; and notwithstanding you / run three times faster and Halloo ten times louder than ever you did before, your Dogs prove themselves good killing./ London, Published Feby. 1st, 1816, by S & J. Fuller, 34, Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 12 / 12" and"49" (in circle).
Paul Mellon Collection
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