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Studies of Horsemen and a Gig (Primary Title)

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

19th century
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
Recto: graphite on thin wove paper with a watermark; Verso: printing and manuscript ink
European Art
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17.94 × 22.54 cm)
Mount: 10 1/16 × 12 in. (25.56 × 30.48 cm)
Mat: 12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.75 × 48.26 cm)
85.859
Not on view
Print on verso (lithograph or soft ground etching?), annotated in (iron gall?) ink. Artist has traced over printed images on recto
Inscribed in ink on verso: "he won't go well in harness" (?), "of actually at/ fence with __/ bad action" (?) and "of clearing a fe[nce]" (?).
Paul Mellon Collection
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