Title page for "Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport". (Primary Title)
Hunting, or Six Hour's [sic] Sport, by Three Real Good Ones, from the East End, and without Seeing a Hound. (Alternate Title)

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

1823
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Letterpress on heavy wove paper with a watermark: 1809
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 16 7/16 in. (29.21 × 41.75 cm)
85.1304a
Not on view
Printed in center: HUNTING, / OR / SIX HOUR'S SPORT, / BY / THREE REAL GOOD ONES, / FROM THE EAST END, / AND WITHOUT SEEING A HOUND. / "It's true--upon my soul, it's true." / BY HENRY ALKEN. / LONDON: / PUBLISHED BY THOMAS M'LEAN, / Repositoryof Wit and Humour, / No. 26, HAYMARKET. / 1823." Inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: "HRH 14 / 7A"; in center: "21"
Paul Mellon Collection
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