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Henry Thomas Alken

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Browse 411 works by Henry Thomas Alken from the Wikimedia Commons. Every work here links to the museum that holds it, and anyone can save it at up to 2,500 pixels on the long side without paying.

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Oil painting of two chestnut racehorses and jockeys racing past spectators in top hats at a Newmarket racecourse, 1837.

The Earl of Lichfield's 'Elis' beating Colonel Peel's 'Slane' at Newmarket 1837, for 300 Gns., by Henry Thomas Alken,…

1837

Men in top hats watch dogs fighting on a city street beside a stone wall, in a black and white print.

Badger-baiting3

1824

Full-length portrait of a man in a top hat and dark coat holding a riding crop beside a stone pillar and ivy.

Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort

Hand-colored print of jockeys in white jackets leaping a wooden gate and hedge on racehorses under a stormy sky.

Accomplished Smashers - Henry Alken

Hand-coloured print of riders in red coats and top hats jumping a fence during a fox hunt across rolling fields.

Fox Hunting - Henry Alken

Hand-colored print of a man in a blue coat waving his hat as dogs swim after a duck in a pond with onlookers.

Duck-baiting

Riders in red coats gallop after hounds across a field, one horse jumping a hedge, under a cloudy sky.

The Belvoir Hunt: Full Cry

1830

Two racehorses race neck and neck past a rail lined with top-hatted spectators and a judge's box, painted 1837.

'Elis', beating Colonel Peel's 'Slane': 300 guineas, Newmarket, 1837

1837

Coloured print of a coach changing horses outside a timber-framed inn, with sheep, dogs and villagers on a country road.

Changing horses at the Plough n. H. Alken, RP-P-1950-285

1950

Two terriers in a dim yard near a kennel, one crouching toward a dead rat on the ground.

Two Terriers Ratting

1785

Painting of a victorious rooster with blood on its beak standing over a fallen rival rooster on a tan platform.

Cockfighting - One Cock Kills the Other

1790

Two roosters with red combs face each other on a sandy mound against a green background.

Cockfighting - Two Cocks Face Each Other

1790

Two roosters with brown and black plumage lunge at each other beak to beak against a green background.

Cockfighting - Two Cocks Attack Each Other

1790

Two terriers, one white and one black and tan, investigate a wicker trap in a dim room beside a fireplace.

Two Terriers Trying to Get at a Rat in a Trap

1785

Two fighting roosters on a brown ground against green, both with blood trailing from their beaks, painted in an old, cracked

Cockfighting - Both Cocks Bleeding from the Mouth

1790

Two terriers attack a badger on a dim floor beside a wooden table in a dark interior scene.

Two Terriers Badger Baiting

1785

Painted coaching scene of a red stagecoach pulled by two galloping horses, with men in top hats riding on top.

Coaching Scene

1835

Riders in red coats jump a ditch and gate during a fox hunt across open countryside, with hounds and a distant windmill.

The Belvoir Hunt: Jumping into and out of a Lane

1830

Painting of a fox hunt meet with red-coated riders, a pack of hounds, and a wide rolling landscape under cloudy sky.

The Belvoir Hunt: The Meet

1785

Racehorses and jockeys in colourful silks galloping across a Newmarket course, with a crowd watching beside the rail.

The Cambridgeshire Stakes, Newmarket, 1849

1849

Riders in red hunting coats and a pack of hounds gather in open countryside beside bare trees, with horses and attendants.

The Belvoir Hunt: The Death

1785

Pencil sketch of two men in top hats with horses beside a wooden fence in an open field.

Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion That My Horse Looks Like 40 Guineas in the Pound'

Pencil sketch of a horse lying on its back beside a cart, with a woman holding a whip and a man in a top hat.

Sporting Notions": 'All He Is Fit For Sir, Now is to Be Cut Up. I Have a Notion That He Can't Be Cut up More Than Mys…

Pencil drawing of a rider tumbling forward off a horse that jumps a wooden fence, hat flying, with a startled onlooker at lef

Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This Bridge Will A-Bridge My Sport'

Pencil sketch of a startled rider on a galloping horse, pursued by charging donkeys across an open plain.

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

Pencil sketch of riders in top hats with horses plunging into floodwater, a fallen rider in a field, and a windmill in the di

Sporting Notions": 'I Had No Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water'

Pencil sketch of a top-hatted rider pitching forward from a rearing horse among hounds on a cobbled road.

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

Pencil sketch of a fallen man beside a gate, a horse with loose reins, and a rider in a top hat watching from behind a fence.

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

Pencil sketch of a hunter carrying a child with hounds, and a rider on a horse in a wooded landscape.

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

Pencil drawing of hunters with rifles aiming at a leopard in a tree while dogs bark in woodland undergrowth.

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

Pencil sketch of a horse and carriage, three men in top hats with dogs, a hanging fish, and a forest scene.

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

Pencil sketch of three hunting men in top hats, dogs, and a horse-drawn cart with a driver in a wooded clearing.

Sporting Anecdotes:" Sketch for 'The Sporting Butcher'