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1. A Turn Up with the Lads of the Village

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 7/16 inches (18.3 × 24 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Quorn Hunt: Drawing Cover

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic and gouache over etched outline on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 20 1/8 inches (31.1 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Beaufort Hunt: The Death and Treeing

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 9/16 × 20 5/8 inches (31.9 × 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Quorn Hunt: The Meet at Ashby Pastures

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache over etched outline on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 20 1/16 inches (31.4 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Quorn Hunt: Tally-Ho and Away

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic and gouache over etched outline on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 20 inches (31.1 × 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Quorn Hunt: The Pace Begins to Tell

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache over etched outline on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 20 1/16 inches (31.1 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Quorn Hunt: Full Cry

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache, over etched outline on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 20 1/16 inches (31.1 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Quorn Hunt: 'Snob is Beat'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache over etched outline on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 7/16 × 20 1/8 inches (31.6 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Quorn Hunt: The Whissendine Appears in View

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache over etched outline on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 × 20 1/16 inches (30.6 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 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

11. The Beaufort Hunt: Crossing the River Avon

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (31.8 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. The Beaufort Hunt: Hold Hard

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 5/16 × 20 9/16 inches (31.3 × 52.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Quorn Hunt: The Death

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with gum arabic, and gouache over etched outline on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 20 1/16 inches (31.1 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Beaufort Hunt: Finding (in a Bog)

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (31.8 × 51.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Beaufort Hunt: Going out of a Kennel

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 3/8 × 20 1/2 inches (31.4 × 52.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Giving the Village Donkeys a Treat

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 9 13/16 inches (19.7 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Treeing a Fox

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 13/16in. (37.5 x 55.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Set of four: 1. Training

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 11 3/4in. (27.3 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Set of four: 2. Mounting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 11 3/4in. (27.3 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Set of four: 3. Starting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 11 3/4in. (27.3 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Set of four: 4. Racing

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: ca. 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 11 3/4in. (27.3 x 29.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ℓ., 2, [18] p. 18 col. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting / in a series of seven plates ... by Ben Tally-Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Set of four - 1. Cock Shooting

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 19 3/4in. (42.9 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Set of four - 3. Refreshing

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 19 3/4in. (42.9 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Set of four - 4. Going Home.

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 19 3/4in. (42.9 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Set of four - 2. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/8 x 19 3/4in. (42.9 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817-1818]
Physical Description:: 8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Hark to Old Danger

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Pleasure of a view Holla

Creator:: after Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Taking the thing easy.

Creator:: after Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The reward of a bold push

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Toast

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Refreshment

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Symptoms: of Coming From the Hunt, of Star Gazing, Going to the Hunt, of an Elegant Writer, of Toasting and Old Friend.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, red chalk, with traces of gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 8 3/4 inches (19.2 × 22.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Taking the lead in defiance of Speed

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 14 1/2in. (30.5 x 36.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] leaves, 6 leaves of plates : col ill. ; 25 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Cockfighting

Creator:: James Clark, 19th century
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with engraved lines, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 3/4in. (23.8 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone

43. Cockfighting

Creator:: James Clark, 19th century
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint with engraved lines, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 3/4in. (23.8 x 32.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art; Gift of Melville & Naomi Stone

44. Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably display'd : illustrating Shakespears Ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: April 20, 1820
Physical Description:: 1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 7 x 457 cm, rolled to 10 x 15 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4], 2, 2, [100] p., [51] leaves of plates col. ill.; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 16 7/8in. (34.9 x 42.9cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [100] p., [51] leaves of plates. col. ill.; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 16 p., [6] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. [Sporting dogs].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [6] prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 13 x 20 cm, on sheets 14 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [43] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. In full cry, hard work / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Set of four: 1. The Walk

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Set of four: 2. Starting

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Set of four: 3. Weighing and Rubbing Down

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Set of four: 4. The Race: Coming in

Creator:: Thomas Sutherland, ca. 1785–1838
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: IV leaves of plates : all ill. 30 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4] plates : chiefly ill ; 36 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Sporting scrap book / by Henry Alken, containing fifty plates, designed and engraved by himself.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 50 prints, 1 leaf of letterpress in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 15 x 22 cm, on sheets 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vi p., [53] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825 [i.e.1826]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The Eagle Paris and Dover [sic] Coach

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 18 3/4in. (34.6 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Fox Hunting: Leicestershire - Getting Away

Creator:: after Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, hand-colored
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 3/4in. (29.8 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Pigeon Shooting

Creator:: Richard Gilson Reeve, 1803–1889
Date:: 1828
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 19 3/4in. (34.9 x 50.2cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Beaufort Hunt: The Return Home

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 9/16 × 20 5/8 inches (31.9 × 52.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. H. Alken's panorama of a fox hunt : shewing a large scope of the Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire counties : with all sorts of riders, good, bad, & indifferent.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: Jany. 1st [1828]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : soft-ground etching ; sheets end-to-end 10 x 323 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 16 x 4 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A collection of interesting subjects of marine views, military parade, hunting, coursing, racing &c. &c. / by Thomas McLane, 26 Haymarket.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: ca. 1828?]
Physical Description:: [56] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Shooting, Coursing, Racing, etc: a series of twenty-four drawings bound in a volume

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Shooting, Coursing, Racing, etc: a series of twenty-four drawings bound in a volume

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1829
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The grand steeple chace over Leicestershire on the 12th of March, 1829 / in a series of eight plates, beautifully coloured from the original paintings by Mr. Henry Alken ; giving portraits of the riders and horses that started on that celebrated day ; with remarks by that distinguished writer, Nimrod, who acted as umpired on the occasion.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2] p., VIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 46 x 61 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : aquatint engraving ; 41 x 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. G.Osbaldeston, Esqr. performing wonderful and unprecedented feat of 200 miles against time.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/4 x 18 3/4in. (41.3 x 47.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1831-1833]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A steeplechase.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 43 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Sporting Anedotes. The Sporting Butcher, alais Lord Marrowbones and His Man. Plate 5.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, colored by hand
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 12 7/8 inches (21 × 32.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Illustrations to C. J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton, Esq."

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 3/4in. (10.5 x 17.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Turn Up with the Lads of the Village

2. The Quorn Hunt: Drawing Cover

3. The Beaufort Hunt: The Death and Treeing

4. The Quorn Hunt: The Meet at Ashby Pastures

5. The Quorn Hunt: Tally-Ho and Away

6. The Quorn Hunt: The Pace Begins to Tell

7. The Quorn Hunt: Full Cry

8. The Quorn Hunt: 'Snob is Beat'

9. The Quorn Hunt: The Whissendine Appears in View

10. Breaking Cover

11. The Beaufort Hunt: Crossing the River Avon

12. The Beaufort Hunt: Hold Hard

13. The Quorn Hunt: The Death

14. The Beaufort Hunt: Finding (in a Bog)

15. The Beaufort Hunt: Going out of a Kennel

16. Giving the Village Donkeys a Treat

17. Treeing a Fox

18. Set of four: 1. Training

19. Set of four: 2. Mounting

20. Set of four: 3. Starting

21. Set of four: 4. Racing

22. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

23. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

24. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting / in a series of seven plates ... by Ben Tally-Ho.

25. Set of four - 1. Cock Shooting

26. Set of four - 3. Refreshing

27. Set of four - 4. Going Home.

28. Set of four - 2. Pheasant Shooting

29. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

30. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

31. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

32. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Hark to Old Danger

33. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Pleasure of a view Holla

34. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Taking the thing easy.

35. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The reward of a bold push

36. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Toast

37. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. The Refreshment

38. Symptoms: of Coming From the Hunt, of Star Gazing, Going to the Hunt, of an Elegant Writer, of Toasting and Old Friend.

39. Set of seven [Fox Hunting]. Taking the lead in defiance of Speed

40. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

41. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

42. Cockfighting

43. Cockfighting

44. Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably display'd : illustrating Shakespears Ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures.

45. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

46. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

47. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

48. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

49. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

50. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

51. Set of six: The High Mettled Racer

52. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

53. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

54. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

55. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

56. [Sporting dogs].

57. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

58. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

59. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

60. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

61. Involuntary thoughts.

62. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

63. In full cry, hard work / Hy. Alken delt.

64. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

65. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

66. Set of four: 1. The Walk

67. Set of four: 2. Starting

68. Set of four: 3. Weighing and Rubbing Down

69. Set of four: 4. The Race: Coming in

70. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

71. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

72. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

73. Sporting scrap book / by Henry Alken, containing fifty plates, designed and engraved by himself.