Creator: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 / Subject Terms: trees

1. Hunting Scene: In Full Cry

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: ca. 1840
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 x 24 1/8 inches (45.7 x 61.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 3/16 inches (16.4 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion You Must Either Pull Him Over or Persuade Him to Pull You Back Again'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 8 7/16 inches (16.7 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. "Sporting Notions": 'My Good Fellows Have You any Notion Where You Can Get a Saw'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 7/16 inches (17.5 × 21.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That I Don't Look Unlike Mazeppa'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (16.5 × 21 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 11/16 inches (12.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities:" 'Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/8 × 6 9/16 inches (10.5 × 16.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1842
Medium:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 7 3/8 inches (12.2 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. "Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving ..." You Discover you Have Overlooked a Small Post on you Whip Hand

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 10 3/16 inches (18.4 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. "Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:" ... Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards

"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:" ... Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.7 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Symptoms: of Sporting Friends Likely-to Go Together, of a Double Entendre, of Sporting Friends Likely-to Seperate, of Sure to HIt the Mark.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1822 and 1827
Medium:: Graphite, and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 8 15/16 inches (17.9 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Snipe Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 3/8 inches (26.7 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. "Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy"

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1827
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 1/2 inches (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. "Sporting Anecdotes:" Sketch for 'The Sporting Butcher'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 13 1/16 inches (21.6 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. "Sporting Anecodotes:" Drawing for the Soft-Gound Etching of 'The Sporting Butcher'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 × 12 7/16 inches (21.1 × 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. "Sporting Incidents:" Drawing For the Soft-gound Etching of 'Panther Hunting'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 12 3/8 inches (20 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. "Sporting Incidents:" Drawing For the Soft-ground Etching of 'Through the Wood'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 × 12 1/2 inches (21.1 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. The Ice-Wagon

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (21.6 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Full Cry

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 10 5/8 inches (22.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Gone Away

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 10 11/16 inches (22.1 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Rider on a Brown Horse Going at a Wall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 15/16 × 12 3/4 inches (22.7 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Huntsman, Galloping to Left and Encouraging Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 12 9/16 inches (22.5 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Huntsman and a Rider Encouraging the Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/16 × 14 7/16 inches (26.5 × 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Jumping a Low Rail and a Brook

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 1/2 inches (27.1 × 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Steeplechasing: Five Riders Galloping Right

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 16 1/8 inches (25.1 × 41 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to thick card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Going Along a Slapping Pace...'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 7/8 inches (20.6 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. "The National Sports of Great Britain," 1821: Owling

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 × 18 3/4 inches (34.6 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. "The National Sports of Great Britain" 1821: Badger Catching

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 14 1/2 × 19 5/16 inches (36.8 × 49.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Foxhunting: Gone to Ground

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 × 14 1/4 inches (25.4 × 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Partridge Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 3/8 inches (27.3 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 9/16 × 13 15/16 inches (24.3 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. "Landscape Scenery", No. 10: Scenes with Wood-Cutters

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1821
Medium:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 5/8 inches (16.7 × 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Wild Duck Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (22.2 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Drawing Covert

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 10 11/16 inches (21.9 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. A Groom Leading a Bay Horse

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 × 13 5/16 inches (25.2 × 33.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Gone Away

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 13 3/16 inches (23.3 × 33.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. 'Rather Too Slow'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 13 1/8 inches (23.7 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. The Death: Yokels Watching in Foreground

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 13 1/8 inches (23.2 × 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The Death: Huntsman Holding Fox Aloft

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 5/16 inches (26 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Jumping a Wooden Fence

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 11/16 inches (27 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Steeplechasing: The Field Coming up to a Ditch

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 16 3/16 inches (25.1 × 41.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Foxhunting: Full Cry

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.7 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" `Returning Home in Triumph. He Disdain'd a Slothful Easey Life; so Took to Hunting'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 × 10 5/8 inches (20.3 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 × 10 13/16 inches (21.1 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Foxhunting: The Leap

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 1/2 inches (23.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 7/16 inches (23.8 × 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Foxhunting: The Death

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 inches (23.3 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 7/16 inches (23.5 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 22 1/8 inches (22.9 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 22 11/16 inches (23.3 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Facing a Brook

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: undated
Medium:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (21 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Francis P. Garvan, Yale BA 1897, in memory of Harry Payne Whitney, Yale BA 1894, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery, Whitney Sporting Art Collection

57. The School-Boy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: 1824
Medium:: Soft-ground etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.6 × 28.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

58. Breaking Cover

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: Undated
Medium:: 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

59. Treeing a Fox

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Date:: Undated
Medium:: 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

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1. Hunting Scene: In Full Cry

2. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

3. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion You Must Either Pull Him Over or Persuade Him to Pull You Back Again'

4. "Sporting Notions": 'My Good Fellows Have You any Notion Where You Can Get a Saw'

5. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That I Don't Look Unlike Mazeppa'

6. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'

7. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

8. Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities:" 'Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman'

9. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

10. "Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving ..." You Discover you Have Overlooked a Small Post on you Whip Hand

11. "Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:" ... Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards

12. Symptoms: of Sporting Friends Likely-to Go Together, of a Double Entendre, of Sporting Friends Likely-to Seperate, of Sure to HIt the Mark.

13. Snipe Shooting

14. "Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy"

15. "Sporting Anecdotes:" Sketch for 'The Sporting Butcher'

16. "Sporting Anecodotes:" Drawing for the Soft-Gound Etching of 'The Sporting Butcher'

17. "Sporting Incidents:" Drawing For the Soft-gound Etching of 'Panther Hunting'

18. "Sporting Incidents:" Drawing For the Soft-ground Etching of 'Through the Wood'

19. The Ice-Wagon

20. Full Cry

21. Gone Away

22. The Death

23. Rider on a Brown Horse Going at a Wall

24. The Huntsman, Galloping to Left and Encouraging Hounds

25. The Huntsman and a Rider Encouraging the Hounds

26. Jumping a Low Rail and a Brook

27. Steeplechasing: Five Riders Galloping Right

28. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

29. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Going Along a Slapping Pace...'

30. "The National Sports of Great Britain," 1821: Owling

31. "The National Sports of Great Britain" 1821: Badger Catching

32. Foxhunting: Gone to Ground

33. Partridge Shooting

34. Pheasant Shooting

35. "Landscape Scenery", No. 10: Scenes with Wood-Cutters

36. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'

37. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

38. Wild Duck Shooting

39. Drawing Covert

40. A Groom Leading a Bay Horse

41. Gone Away

42. 'Rather Too Slow'

43. The Death: Yokels Watching in Foreground

44. The Death: Huntsman Holding Fox Aloft

45. Jumping a Wooden Fence

46. Steeplechasing: The Field Coming up to a Ditch

47. Foxhunting: Full Cry

48. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" `Returning Home in Triumph. He Disdain'd a Slothful Easey Life; so Took to Hunting'

49. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'

50. Foxhunting: The Leap

51. Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover

52. Foxhunting: The Death

53. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

54. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

55. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

56. Facing a Brook

57. The School-Boy

58. Breaking Cover

59. Treeing a Fox