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Going to Cover (Primary Title)
Alken's Characteristic Sketches of Hunting and Sporting (Series Title)

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

1825
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored soft-ground etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (19.05 × 24.77 cm)
Plate: 5 7/8 × 8 in. (14.92 × 20.32 cm)
Image: 4 7/16 × 7 1/4 in. (11.27 × 18.42 cm)
85.1270.2
Not on view
Printed above image upper center: Going to Cover. Printed beneath image in center: Having screw'd yourself up for a toutch [sic] at a rail and Ditch. circumstances oblige / you to alter your mind when on--------------------------the rail. / Pubd. June 1825. by J. Dickinson. 114. New Bond Street. Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "14 (?) / 16" (partially obscured by hinge) and "HRH 14 / 16a - 17"; in center: "75" and "74" (crossed through)
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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