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Henry Thomas Alken

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Hand-colored drawing of riders in top hats galloping over a fence while hounds run during a fox hunt.

Foxhunting: The Start

1822

Hand-coloured panoramic print of riders and hounds gathering for a foxhunt across open countryside beside a fence.

Foxhunting: The Meet

1822

Watercolour of four men and hunting dogs resting on open moorland, with a picnic cloth and shotguns in the foreground.

Grouse Shooting: The Wrong Sort

Three hunters with shotguns and dogs on a hillside above a valley with grazing sheep, a dead game bird on the ground.

Grouse Shooting: The Right Sort

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a rider in a red coat and top hat on a brown horse, with two hounds running beside.

The Cover Hack

1827

Rider in red coat jumping a chestnut horse over a wooden fence beside a tree, drawn in pencil and watercolour.

Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy

1827

Hand-coloured print of a rider in a red coat and top hat leaping a rail fence on a chestnut horse, with other riders behind.

Going at a Rank of Hurdles with Temper and Resolution

1827

Rider in a red coat waves his hat on a galloping chestnut horse, with two hounds running across open country.

A Whipper-In and a Couple of Hounds Running Hard in Open Country

Pencil and watercolor drawing of two men in top hats riding horses across open ground, one raising a hand to his hat.

A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing

Watercolor of a red-coated rider raising a whip on a galloping chestnut horse across an open hunting landscape.

Facing a Brook

1049

Rider in red coat and top hat leaping a fence on a brown horse, with hounds and riders in an open landscape.

Charging an Ox Fence

1047

Watercolor of a red-coated rider on a galloping brown horse with hounds, other riders in the distant landscape.

Going Along a Slapping Pace

1044

Colored drawing of a gentleman driving four galloping horses pulling a phaeton carriage with three grooms aboard.

A Gentleman driving a four-in-hand to a Mail Phaeton, accompanied by three grooms

Red-coated men toast boisterously in a dining room with hunting prints, antlers and a spaniel on the floor.

Foxhunting: The Toast

Watercolor of hunters, hounds and horses gathered at a rural inn, with a woman serving drinks at the doorway.

Foxhunting: The Refreshment

Watercolor of red-coated riders in a foxhunt, one horse leaping a white picket fence while a groom holds open a gate.

Foxhunting: The Leap

Watercolor of riders and hounds in a fox hunt crossing a bank and gate, with a boy beside a signpost in the foreground.

Foxhunting: Gone Away

Watercolor of a foxhunt with riders in red and grey coats and hounds chasing through a bare wooded landscape.

Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover

Hunters in red coats with a lantern and hounds chasing a fox down a wooded hillside at dusk, with a valley below.

An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

1842

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a red-coated rider in a top hat galloping a brown horse across an open field.

'Riding to Horses with Difficulty'

Hand-coloured drawing of a red-coated rider in a top hat jumping a horse over a fence as a woman watches.

'Getting Across the Country Like a Gentleman'

Watercolor of a rider in a red coat and top hat spurring a galloping chestnut horse across an open field.

'Rather Too Slow'

Colored drawing of a rider in a red coat galloping a chestnut horse with hounds across an open field.

'Rather Too Fast'

Hand-coloured print of hounds in full pursuit of a fox, with red-coated riders galloping across an open countryside.

Full Cry

Hand-colored drawing of fox hunters in red coats on horseback chasing hounds across an open field with bare trees.

Gone Away

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a groom in a top hat leading a bay horse across an open field.

A Groom Leading a Bay Horse

Watercolor of a foxhunt with hounds, a fallen rider in a red coat, horses and trees in a rolling landscape.

Foxhunting: Gone to Ground

Watercolor of a man in a top hat riding a chestnut horse across a field with autumn trees and farm buildings.

H. Grant on Horseback

Pencil and watercolour drawing of two riders on horseback chasing hounds and a fox across a bare winter field.

Drawing Covert

Watercolour sketch of men in top hats brawling with sticks in a wooded clearing, one figure fallen at lower left.

Poachers Surprised

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a hunter with a shotgun, dogs in a marsh, and a snipe flying over a stream.

Snipe Shooting

Watercolor of a cavalryman on a falling chestnut horse down a rocky hillside, with distant troops and pale sky.

Shot from a Gun