Print Description
A horse and rider climbing out of a canal in a field. Two other riders are visible in the background.
Made by Henry Alken after own design.
Medium: Handcoloured aquatint. on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 25 x 15.5 cm (9.84 x 6.1 inch). Image size: 20.5 x 14.5 cm. (8.07 x 5.71 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Excellent, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
RIVER-HORSE-HUNTER-FALLEN-CARICATURE | DPO-PCO-2-30
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From Delabere P. Blaine’s ‘An Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports’, 1840.
Biography engraver: Engraved by H. Alken after his own design. Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) was an English painter and engraver, chiefly known as caricaturist and illustrator of sporting and hunting subjects.
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