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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Title(s):
[Additional illustrations for Nimrod's The life of a sportsman].
Published/Created:
London : Pubd. by R. Ackermann, at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent St., 1838.
Physical Description:
4 prints : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets 15 x 22 cm, in mats 19 x 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SK285 .N56 1842+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12550783
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Imprint from Loves a bit of mischief and Being first entered to Vermin. The other other two prints lacks imprints.
BAC: British Art Center copy: Hand-colored aquatints. 1842. Bookplate: R.N.H. Moore Stevens.
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, volume 1, page 37-38
Four hand-colored aquatint illustrations apparently intended (but not used) for the first edition of Nimrod's Life of a sportsman (London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1842.)
Subject Terms:
Fox hunting -- Pictorial works.
Hunting -- Pictorial works.
Nimrod (Covert operative). Life of a sportsman -- Illustrations.
Sporting prints.
Stevens, R.N.H. Moore -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1838.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Sporting art.
Contributors:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834, publisher.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851. Loves a bit of mischief.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851. Being first entered to vermin.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851. Debut, or, First attempt at the brush.
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851. First step to the coach-box.
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  • Loves a bit of mischief
  • Being first entered to vermin
  • The debut, or, First attempt at the brush
  • The first step to the coach-box.

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