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How to Ride Down Hill (Primary Title)
How to Qualify for a Meltonian (Series Title)

Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785 - 1851 (Artist)

1819
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Hand-colored etching on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 16 5/8 in. (33.66 × 42.23 cm)
Plate: 10 5/8 × 13 5/8 in. (26.99 × 34.61 cm)
Image: 8 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (22.23 × 31.43 cm)
85.1312.3
Not on view
Part of series ""How to Qualify for a Meltonian" print series" (85.1312.1-6)
Touches of gouache used for highlights, in addition to watercolor.
Printed above image upper right: Plate 3. Printed beneath image in center: HOW TO RIDE DOWN HILL./ London, Pub July, 16,1819. by S. & J. Fuller at their Sporting Gallery. 34. Rathbone Place. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "14 / 2" and "6"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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