Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Title:
Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.
Alternate Title(s):
Indispensable accomplishments
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1824.
Physical Description:
IV leaves of plates : all ill. 30 x 44 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 47
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Originally published in 1815; the plates remain dated 1815.

Cover title.

"Price one guinea."--Cover.

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 38

Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p. 28

Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints, p. 72

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in red half levant morocco and red cloth, by Riviere and Son. Original gray wrappers bound in. Armorial bookplate: Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart.

Satiric prints about horsemanship.
Contents:
How to purchase a horse -- Going it full speed -- Standing it miserable -- How to come it aukwardly.
Subject Terms:
Hunting -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Horsemanship -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Satire, English. | Horse sports -- Great Britain -- Caricatures and cartoons. | Orme, Edward, 1775–1848, -- Publisher. | Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, David Lionel -- Bookplate. | Riviere and Son -- Bookbinder.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824.
Contributors:
Orme, Edward, 1775–1848, publisher.