Breaking Cover
Thomas Sutherland (1785 - 1838)
Henry Thomas Alken (1785 - 1851)
Coloured aquatint
1 August 1821
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Henry Thomas Alken was born in Soho, London; the son of artist and printmaker Samuel Alken. His brothers Sefferein and Samuel became sporting artists, while George was a designer and lithographer. Alken studied under his father, followed by miniaturist John Thomas Barber Beaumont. In 1809 he married Maria Gordon of Ipswich, Suffolk, and remained in Ipswich for a time. His five children were all born there. In 1813 his first sporting prints were published. He went on to produce numerous designs for sporting printsellers, using the pseudonym Ben Tally Ho for satirical subjects. He was also a prolific printmaker himself and wrote books on engraving. At his death, he was living in relative poverty with his unmarried daughter in Highgate.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- horseback, fox hunting, landscape C19th, Victorian Genre, tree, fox, dog, horse, top hat, field, fence
- Materials & Techniques
- aquatint, coloured aquatint
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Details
- Title
- Breaking Cover
- Date
- 1 August 1821
- Medium
- Coloured aquatint
- Acquisition
- Purchased from F B Daniell, November 1951
- GAC number
- 1398