On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Period: 19th century / Image Use: Free to Use / Subject Terms: fence and horses (animals)

1. The Straw Yard

Creator:: Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: 1808
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 inches (24.8 × 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Gipsy Encampment

Creator:: Print made by Samuel David Colkett, 1806–1863
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on very thick, rough, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/16 x 15 3/4 inches (29.1 x 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Salisbury Cathedral

Creator:: Print made by David Lucas, 1802–1881
Date:: 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches (67.9 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Crofton Hall, Yorkshire

Creator:: Robert Havell, 1769–1832
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with etching, hand-colored on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 17 3/8 inches (29.4 x 44.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Jumping a Low Rail and a Brook

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 1/2 inches (27.1 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. '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

7. "You're Not Going to Follow, Belle, Are You?"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 × 21 15/16 inches (40.6 × 55.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Sporting Parson: "He Sheweth Them the Way They Should Go"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 1/16 inches (27.3 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Sporting Parson: "He Trieth a Little 'High Church' Style"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 13/16 inches (27.1 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Sporting Parson: "Next a Little Low Church"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (27 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Drawing Covert

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Full Cry

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 10 5/8 inches (22.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Gone Away

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (22.1 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Sporting Parson: "Why Hang - I Mean Bless Me! If They Haven't Run into Him in My Own Churchyard!"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray-green, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (27 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 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

17. 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

18. The Death: The Fox Hoist to a Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 17 5/16 inches (26 × 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Mother Bundle in a Rage or Too late for the Stage

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: ca. 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown-gray, red-brown, and brown ink, over graphite; verso: graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (11.1 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and pen and red-brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches (11 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 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

22. "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

23. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

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 1/4 inches (16.7 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. "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

25. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Leap: 'That Will Shut Out Many, and Make the Thing Select'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

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 1/16 × 9 3/16 inches (15.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 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

28. Foxhunting: Rider, Taking a Fence

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (20 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. "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

30. "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

31. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound'

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 3/8 inches (16.7 × 21.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. 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

33. "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

34. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Down Leap

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 9 1/8 inches (15.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. "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

36. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Evading the Toll

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1805 and 1810
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 inches (16.2 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. The Gipsy Encampment

Creator:: Print made by Samuel David Colkett, 1806–1863
Date:: 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/16 × 8 1/2 inches (13.8 × 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner: the Residence of his Grace the Duke of Wellington

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Barber, ca. 1768–1843
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 11/16 x 8 7/8 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Jumping a Double Oxer - A Rider in Difficulties

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 5/8 inches (27.3 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Steeplechasing: Four Riders Taking a Ditch and an Oxer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 16 3/16 inches (25.2 × 41.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Low Rail and a Brook

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (27 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Steeplechasing: The Field Jumping Into and Out of a Lane

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 3/8 inches (26 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Topping a Flight of Rails...'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/16 × 10 3/4 inches (20.8 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 7/16 inches (23.8 × 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Foxhunting: Gone Away

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: 9 5/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.7 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Foxhunting: The Leap

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 1/2 inches (23.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Foxhunting: Gone to Ground

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 1/4 inches (25.4 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Trying the Mare

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: 1813
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 10 15/16 inches (22.1 × 27.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Riders Taking a Fence

Creator:: Samuel Henry Gordon Alken, 1810–1894
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches (21 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Foxhunting: Full Cry

Creator:: Edwin W. Cooper of Beccles, 1785–1833
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 3/16 inches (32.1 × 48.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Foxhunting: Near the Death

Creator:: Edwin W. Cooper of Beccles, 1785–1833
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 3/16 inches (32.1 × 48.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Steeplechasing: Two Riders Taking a Wooden Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 3/4 inches (27 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Rider Holding on to a Gray Horse After a Fall

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 × 12 9/16 inches (23.2 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Jumping a Wooden Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 11/16 inches (27 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Charging an Ox Fence with Good Success'

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 3/16 × 10 7/8 inches (20.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 9/16 × 14 5/8 inches (26.8 × 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Got in and Getting Out. Very Clever'

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 1/8 × 10 13/16 inches (20.6 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Foxhunting: The Death

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: 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. Foxhunting: Hunt Servants Leading Out Hounds

Creator:: Samuel Henry Gordon Alken, 1810–1894
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 × 9 5/16 inches (21.4 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Breaking Cover

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: Undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 7/8 inches (37.5 x 55.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Straw Yard

2. The Gipsy Encampment

3. Salisbury Cathedral

4. Crofton Hall, Yorkshire

5. Jumping a Low Rail and a Brook

6. 'Rather Too Slow'

7. "You're Not Going to Follow, Belle, Are You?"

8. The Sporting Parson: "He Sheweth Them the Way They Should Go"

9. The Sporting Parson: "He Trieth a Little 'High Church' Style"

10. The Sporting Parson: "Next a Little Low Church"

11. Drawing Covert

12. Full Cry

13. Gone Away

14. The Sporting Parson: "Why Hang - I Mean Bless Me! If They Haven't Run into Him in My Own Churchyard!"

15. The Death

16. Two Riders Jumping a Wooden Fence

17. Gone Away

18. The Death: The Fox Hoist to a Fence

19. Mother Bundle in a Rage or Too late for the Stage

20. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

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

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

23. "Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

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

25. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Leap: 'That Will Shut Out Many, and Make the Thing Select'

26. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

27. 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

28. Foxhunting: Rider, Taking a Fence

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

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

31. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound'

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

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

34. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Down Leap

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

36. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

37. Evading the Toll

38. The Gipsy Encampment

39. Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner: the Residence of his Grace the Duke of Wellington

40. Jumping a Double Oxer - A Rider in Difficulties

41. Steeplechasing: Four Riders Taking a Ditch and an Oxer

42. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Low Rail and a Brook

43. Steeplechasing: The Field Jumping Into and Out of a Lane

44. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Topping a Flight of Rails...'

45. Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover

46. Foxhunting: Gone Away

47. Foxhunting: The Leap

48. Foxhunting: Gone to Ground

49. Trying the Mare

50. Riders Taking a Fence

51. Foxhunting: Full Cry

52. Foxhunting: Near the Death

53. Steeplechasing: Two Riders Taking a Wooden Fence

54. Rider Holding on to a Gray Horse After a Fall

55. Jumping a Wooden Fence

56. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Charging an Ox Fence with Good Success'

57. Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate

58. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Got in and Getting Out. Very Clever'

59. Foxhunting: The Death

60. Foxhunting: Hunt Servants Leading Out Hounds

61. Breaking Cover