The Life and Death of a Horse: 'The Sand Cart' - an Exhausted Horse Dragging a Cart (Primary Title)

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

19th century
English
Drawings
Works On Paper
watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (8.89 × 13.97 cm)
Mount: 6 1/2 × 8 5/8 in. (16.51 × 21.91 cm)
Mat: 12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.75 × 48.26 cm)
85.856.5
Not on view
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "36" and "The Sand Cart"
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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