On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Genre: sporting art

1. The Meet

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 5/16 inches (38.1 x 49 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Found!

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 7/16 inches (38.1 x 49.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Who-o-p!

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 1/2 inches (38 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Huntsman and Hounds

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thick, smooth, gray wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches (20.1 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Flying Pack

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 19 1/2 inches (38.3 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Huntsmen in a Wood

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Materials & Techniques:: photomechanical proces
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Les Fetes de la Moisson

Creator:: after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Materials & Techniques:: photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Trout Stream

Creator:: after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. North-West Front, Cassiobury, with Hounds and Huntsmen

Creator:: after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Easter Monday. 1. Turning out the Stag at Buckits Hill, Epping Forest

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 x 24 1/2in. (31.4 x 62.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Partridge Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 20 7/8 inches (37.4 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Snipe Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 20 13/16 inches (38.3 x 52.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 3/16 x 20 13/16 inches (38.5 x 52.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Lord Glamis and Stag Hounds

Creator:: Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, color by hand on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 24 9/16 × 31 3/4 inches (62.4 × 80.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 22 11/16 inches (23.3 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Going at a Rank of Hurdles with Temper and Resolution

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. "By - he'll get to the Earth..."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Foxhunting: The Meet

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 26 7/8 inches (24 × 68.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. "Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy"

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Foxhunting: Full Cry

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 26 15/16 inches (23.8 × 68.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 1/2 inches (23.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 22 1/8 inches (22.9 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Hereford Boar

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: ca. 1803
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 × 7 3/16 inches (12.5 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Grouse Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Matthew Dubourg, active 1786–1838
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches (37.2 x 53 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. "The Cover Hack"

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Foxhunting: The Start

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 26 13/16 inches (24.1 × 68.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Grouse Shooting: The Right Sort

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 13/16 inches (21.6 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Foxhunting: The Death

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 26 15/16 inches (24.3 × 68.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Grouse Shooting: The Wrong Sort

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (21.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 7/16 inches (23.5 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Famous Childers

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gouache, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 5/8 × 7 1/8 inches (14.3 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Boots, Etc. Cromwell's Time, Haddon Hall, Jan. 9, 1825

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 10 3/8 inches (17.8 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Archers Stalking a Stag

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (19.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Tiger Hunting in the East Indies

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, mezzotint, and etching with hand coloring on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 29 1/8 inches (52.1 x 74 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Eton Boat on the Towpath of the Thames: Windsor Castle in Background

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gouache and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 x 30 3/4 inches (31.8 x 78.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Blenheim, Oxfordshire

Creator:: Print made by William Radclyffe, 1780–1855
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, first published state
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Hastings Races

Creator:: George Bryant Campion, 1796–1870
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 x 17 7/8in. (26.5 x 45.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Design for the Frontspiece of the Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, Volume 1

Creator:: Print made by Robert Isaac Cruikshank, 1789–1856
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching hand-colored with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 1/16 inches (24.9 × 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Two Hunters and Two Dogs in Winter Scene

Creator:: Thomas Sully, 1783–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 6 1/2 inches (11.1 × 16.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. I am not learned in Vaccine Matters - but I think those look like Charley's Calves

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 1/2 x 28 7/8 inches (54.6 x 73.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Thames Fishermen, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1878
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 inches (18.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

42. On the Thames

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/16 inches (30.7 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

43. Okehampton, Devonshire

Creator:: Print made by James T. Willmore, 1800–1863
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving, 3rd state on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 1/2 inches (27 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Cadger's Trot

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (20.7 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The Cadger's Trot (first State)

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Bewick, 1753–1828
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (21 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Glenfinlas

Creator:: Print made by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1802–1828
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 x 11 5/8 inches (24.3 x 29.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Exercising a Racehorse

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 3/4 inches (20.5 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (16.7 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 10 3/8 inches (19.8 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 inches (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. "Landscape Scenery", No. 7: Scenes of Cricket and a Waggoner With His Team

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 9 7/8 inches (15.6 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. "Scraps", No. 15: Racehorse with Jockey Up, Two Men Discussing the Horse

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (16.8 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. "Scraps", No. 27: Two Dismounted Riders Drinking at an Alehouse Door

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 1/16 inches (16.7 × 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 3/16 inches (18.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. "Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 5/16 inches (18.3 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Symptoms: of Up With a Down Prospect, of Down with an Up Prospect, of Learning to Trot, of a Hard Mouth.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 9 1/8 inches (19.2 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Symptoms: of Being Bang Up, of a Fine Woman, of Being Bang Down, Of a Quiet One.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 8 3/8 inches (17.8 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Symptoms: of How Do You Do, of I Should Not Have Known You, of My Lud, Of Easing a Patient, of a Loose Rein, of Wokey, of Tight in Hand

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches (17.1 × 21.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. "Scraps", No. 28: Skittle Alley With Players and Spectators

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 9 5/16 inches (17.3 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (17.5 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Turbaned Cavalryman on a Horse

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 1/16 inches (16.5 × 12.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion You Must Either Pull Him Over or Persuade Him to Pull You Back Again'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 7/16 inches (16.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 3/16 inches (16.4 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. "Sporting Notions": 'My Good Fellows Have You any Notion Where You Can Get a Saw'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 7/16 inches (17.5 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That I Don't Look Unlike Mazeppa'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (16.5 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. "Sporting Notions": 'It's My Notion That This is the Only Way to Get Her Along'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 1/8 inches (16.2 × 20.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. "Sporting Notions": 'All He Is Fit For Sir, Now is to Be Cut Up. I Have a Notion That He Can't Be Cut up More Than Myself'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 5/16 inches (17.3 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This Bridge Will A-Bridge My Sport'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 1/2 inches (16.4 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. "Sporting Notions": 'My Notion is We Shall Get Him up Pretty Shortly What is Your Notion? I've Worked so Hard that I Hav'nt a Notion in Me'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 8 inches (16.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. "Sporting Notions": 'This Gives Me a Notion it's Better to "Look Before You Leap" '

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with red chalk on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 7/16 inches (16.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. "Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

"Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite with red chalk and white gouache on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 5/16 inches (16.5 × 21.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 7 3/8 inches (12.2 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Morning. Turning Out in Prime Twig. Doing the Least you Can

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, red ink, black ink, green ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/8 inches (15.4 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it No How

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 9 3/16 inches (15.2 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" The Down Leap Done

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/4 inches (15.4 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding near London:" The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1809 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (17.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding Near London:" Fancy - View Near Gray's Inn Road

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1809 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 7/8 inches (16 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Symptoms: of Taking Lessons, of Having Had Enough, of Earnest, of Fun.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1822 and 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 11/16 inches (17.6 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Home

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1820 and 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Morning Ride

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1822 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 1/2 inches (18.3 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Symptoms: of Doubtful Amusement - or Craneing, of Anxious Amusement - or Sure of a Bite, of Public Amusement - or No Taxes, Dangerous Amusement - or a Slapper, Private Amusement - or Cruelty

Symptoms: of Doubtful Amusement - or Craneing, of Anxious Amusement - or Sure of a Bite, of Public Amusement - or No Taxes, Dangerous Amusement - or a Slapper, Private Amusement - or Cruelty

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1822 and 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 8 13/16 inches (18.4 × 22.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 11 inches (23.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Wild Duck Shooting

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 5/16 inches (16.8 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 5/16 inches (16.8 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Woodcock Shooting

Creator:: William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gum arabic, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 3/16 inches (24.6 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. The Deer-Stalker, Oct. 15, 1852

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 3/8 inches (18.3 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Sportsman and Two Dogs

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen in brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 × 5 3/4 inches (11.1 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Coursing: a Group of Riders Galloping From Left After a Couple of Greyhounds

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 14 1/16 inches (14.9 × 35.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. The Annual Sculling Race for Doggett's Coat and Badge

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1805 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 × 9 3/16 inches (14.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. A Crowded Race Meeting

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1805 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 × 9 1/2 inches (14.9 × 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Dismounted Rider Breaking Open a Fence for Foxhounds to Pass Through

Creator:: John Frederick Tayler, 1802–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 3/16 inches (17.3 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Full Cry. 1821: Riders Taking a Wooden Fence

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 1/8 inches (21.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Two Riders Jumping a Wooden Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23.7 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Gone Away

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 13 3/16 inches (23.3 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Rider on a Brown Horse Going at a Wall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 12 3/4 inches (22.7 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. The Huntsman and a Rider Encouraging the Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 7/16 inches (26.5 × 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. 'Rather Too Slow'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 13 1/8 inches (23.7 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. 'Rather Too Fast'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23.7 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. 'Riding to Horses with Difficulty'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 13 1/4 inches (23.7 × 33.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. The Death: Yokels Watching in Foreground

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (23.2 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Meet

2. Found!

3. Who-o-p!

4. Huntsman and Hounds

5. The Flying Pack

6. Huntsmen in a Wood

7. Les Fetes de la Moisson

8. The Trout Stream

9. North-West Front, Cassiobury, with Hounds and Huntsmen

10. Easter Monday. 1. Turning out the Stag at Buckits Hill, Epping Forest

11. Partridge Shooting

12. Snipe Shooting

13. Pheasant Shooting

14. Lord Glamis and Stag Hounds

15. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

16. Going at a Rank of Hurdles with Temper and Resolution

17. "By - he'll get to the Earth..."

18. Foxhunting: The Meet

19. "Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy"

20. Foxhunting: Full Cry

21. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

22. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

23. Hereford Boar

24. Grouse Shooting

25. "The Cover Hack"

26. Foxhunting: The Start

27. Grouse Shooting: The Right Sort

28. Foxhunting: The Death

29. Grouse Shooting: The Wrong Sort

30. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

31. The Famous Childers

32. Boots, Etc. Cromwell's Time, Haddon Hall, Jan. 9, 1825

33. Archers Stalking a Stag

34. Tiger Hunting in the East Indies

35. The Eton Boat on the Towpath of the Thames: Windsor Castle in Background

36. Blenheim, Oxfordshire

37. Hastings Races

38. Design for the Frontspiece of the Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette, Volume 1

39. Two Hunters and Two Dogs in Winter Scene

40. I am not learned in Vaccine Matters - but I think those look like Charley's Calves

41. Thames Fishermen, no. 2

42. On the Thames

43. Okehampton, Devonshire

44. The Cadger's Trot

45. The Cadger's Trot (first State)

46. Glenfinlas

47. Exercising a Racehorse

48. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

49. A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing

50. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

51. "Landscape Scenery", No. 7: Scenes of Cricket and a Waggoner With His Team

52. "Scraps", No. 15: Racehorse with Jockey Up, Two Men Discussing the Horse

53. "Scraps", No. 27: Two Dismounted Riders Drinking at an Alehouse Door

54. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

55. "Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

56. Symptoms: of Up With a Down Prospect, of Down with an Up Prospect, of Learning to Trot, of a Hard Mouth.

57. Symptoms: of Being Bang Up, of a Fine Woman, of Being Bang Down, Of a Quiet One.

58. Symptoms: of How Do You Do, of I Should Not Have Known You, of My Lud, Of Easing a Patient, of a Loose Rein, of Wokey, of Tight in Hand

59. "Scraps", No. 28: Skittle Alley With Players and Spectators

60. Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt.

61. Turbaned Cavalryman on a Horse

62. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion You Must Either Pull Him Over or Persuade Him to Pull You Back Again'

63. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

64. "Sporting Notions": 'My Good Fellows Have You any Notion Where You Can Get a Saw'

65. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That I Don't Look Unlike Mazeppa'

66. "Sporting Notions": 'It's My Notion That This is the Only Way to Get Her Along'

67. "Sporting Notions": 'All He Is Fit For Sir, Now is to Be Cut Up. I Have a Notion That He Can't Be Cut up More Than Myself'

68. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This Bridge Will A-Bridge My Sport'

69. "Sporting Notions": 'My Notion is We Shall Get Him up Pretty Shortly What is Your Notion? I've Worked so Hard that I Hav'nt a Notion in Me'

70. "Sporting Notions": 'This Gives Me a Notion it's Better to "Look Before You Leap" '

71. "Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'

72. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

73. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Morning. Turning Out in Prime Twig. Doing the Least you Can