WATER HEN SHOOTING c1820
H. Alken del.t I. Clark sculp.t
London, Published by T, Mc.Lean, Jany. 1. 1820. (As dated in plate)
This is a 'later impression' likely Chromoxylograph / Chromolithograph colour production of late 19th century.
Quality two tone 'French Line' wash mount
Visible sheet area: 9.75" x 13.25" (245 x 335mm). External Mount Size: 18.75" x 15.5" (475 x 395mm)
Two Gentlemen shooters in reeds with gun dogs in persuit of water hen taking flight in foreground
River, woods and cottage in background, with cloudy skyline.
Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785–7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist
and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.
Alken provided the plates picturing hunting, coaching, racing and steeplechasing for The National Sports of Great Britain (London, 1821). Alken, known as an avid sportsman, is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s. (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp. 75–76).
He created prints for the leading sporting print sellers such as S. and J. Fuller, Thomas McLean, and Rudolph Ackermann, and often collaborated with his friend the sporting journalist Charles James Apperley.
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