Print Description
a group of hunters on horseback entering the graveyard near a village.
Made by Henry Alken after own design.
Medium: Handcoloured aquatint. on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 24.6 x 15.5 cm (9.69 x 6.1 inch). Image size: 20 x 14.5 cm. (7.87 x 5.71 inch).
Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
HUNTING-GRAVEYARD-HORSE-HUNTING DOGS | DPO-PCO-2-191
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From Delabere P. Blaine’s ‘An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports’, 1840.
Biography engraver: Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) was an English painter and engraver, mainly known as an illustrator and caricaturist of sporting and hunting subjects.
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