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Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British, "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Topping a Flight of Rails...', undated
- Title:
"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Topping a Flight of Rails...'
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 3/16 × 10 3/4 inches (20.8 × 27.3 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 8 × 10 11/16 inches (20.3 × 27.1 cm), Image: 7 1/2 × 10 11/16 inches (19.1 × 27.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with black ink, lower center: "2. Topping a flight of Rails and comeing into the next Field. (.but not well.). if you have the | slightest regard for your Neck it would be better to make this the last stage"; inscribed in graphite, verso, center: "21"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "HRH 12 - 2"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.532
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bushes | falling | fence | field | hat | horseback riders | horseback riding | horses (animals) | hunt | hunters | hunting | jumping | landscape | men | sporting art
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47198
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