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How to Go to Cover (Primary Title)
How to Qualify for a Meltonian (Series Title)

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

1819
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 16 5/8 in. (33.18 × 42.23 cm)
Plate: 10 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (27.31 × 34.29 cm)
Image: 8 13/16 × 12 3/8 in. (22.38 × 31.43 cm)
85.1312.1
Not on view
Printed above image, upper center: "How to qualify for a Meltonian."; upper right: "Plate 1." Printed beneath image in center: "HOW TO GO TO COVER./ London. Pub July 16. 1819. by S.& J. Fuller, at their Sporting Gallery. 34. Rathbone Place." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "14/ 1/1" (?) and "3"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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