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Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British, A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House:The Death, Engraved as Plate 40 in "The National Sports of Great Britain", 1821
- Title:
A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House:The Death, Engraved as Plate 40 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
- Date:
- 1821
- Medium:
- Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 9 11/16 × 13 11/16 inches (24.6 × 34.8 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 9 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (24.4 × 34.6 cm), Sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 3/8 inches (24 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Five to one [?]"'; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "29"; inscribed in graphite, verso, center right: "22 /20 pair"
Signed in graphite, lower left: "H. Alken"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.386
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cock-fight | death | men | outhouse | roosters | sporting art
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47131
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Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
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