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Henry Thomas Alken

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Pencil sketch of a galloping lancer in a tall shako with several cavalry riders and horse head studies.

Scraps", No. 8: Scenes of a Lancer and Other Cavalry

1823

Pencil sketch of two mounted hussars in plumed caps, one raising a sabre, with distant riders on the right.

Scraps", No. 39: Mounted Hussars

1823

Pencil sketch of a huntsman holding up a fox near hounds and horses, while a rider raises his hat.

Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

Pencil and red chalk sketch of infantry soldiers in shako hats and cavalry horses in various poses.

Landscape Scenery", No. 13: Groups of Infantry and Army Horses

1821

Pencil sketch of a racehorse with a jockey, a groom leading it, and two top-hatted men discussing it at left.

Scraps", No. 15: Racehorse with Jockey Up, Two Men Discussing the Horse

1823

Pencil sketches of wood-cutters with axes, dogs, a top-hatted gentleman, and a woman and child on a sheet.

Landscape Scenery", No. 10: Scenes with Wood-Cutters

1821

Pencil sketches of cricket players in top hats, a batsman at the wicket, a waggoner with a horse team and cart, and a dog.

Landscape Scenery", No. 7: Scenes of Cricket and a Waggoner With His Team

1821

Pencil sketches of horse-drawn artillery, cavalry riders, a supply wagon, and a woman with a dog.

Landscape Scenery", No. 18: Scenes of Horse Drawn Artillery, etc.

1821

Pencil sketch of men in top hats watching a skittle game with wooden pins, while others drink at a table behind.

Scraps", No. 28: Skittle Alley With Players and Spectators

1823

Pencil drawing of three racehorses galloping right, with jockeys in helmets raising whips across open ground.

Scraps", no 17: Racing, Three Horses with Jockeys Up Galloping to Right

Pencil sketch of two riders on horses beside a stable, with a pack of hounds resting on the ground in front.

Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

Pencil sketch of a turbaned rider on a galloping horse, holding a long bamboo spear, with red chalk accents.

Scraps", no. 35: Mounted Mameluke with Bamboo Spear

Pencil sketch of an armored rider on a rearing horse brandishing a curved sword, with a distant town on the horizon.

Scraps", no. 33: Mounted Mameluke Brandishing a Sword

1823

Pencil sketch of a bearded mounted rider in a fur hat aiming a pistol from a prancing grey horse, with distant riders.

Scraps", no. 34: Mounted Mameluke Pointing a Pistol

1823

Pencil sketch of a turbaned rider on a rearing horse gesturing to a standing man in a patterned cloak with a sword.

Scraps", no. 32: Two Mamelukes Talking, One Mounted

1823

Pencil sketch of two horses led past riders in top hats gathered at a thatched alehouse porch.

Scraps", No. 27: Two Dismounted Riders Drinking at an Alehouse Door

1823

Pencil sketch of two riders in hunting dress, one opening a gate for running hounds beside two horses and a tree.

Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

1823

Four horses pull a red stagecoach with passengers on its roof along a snowy road past bare winter trees.

The Ipswich to London Coach

1840

Two racehorses with jockeys in red caps finish neck and neck on a sandy course before a crowd and grandstand.

The Dead Heat for the Doncaster St Leger, with 'Voltigeur' and 'Russborough'

1850

Two hunters with guns on a snowy dune by the sea, a brown dog running nearby, under a heavy grey winter sky.

Duck Shooting in Winter

Hand-coloured print of riders in red coats and hounds beating through gorse scrub, with bare trees and a fence in the backgro

Beating a Gorse Cover

Painting of a hunter aiming a gun at a flying duck over a marsh, with two spaniels in the reeds.

Duck Shooting

Pencil sketch of a seated boy on a wooden chair holding a cap in his lap, drawn on pale paper.

Boy Sitting Holding a Cap

Hand-coloured print of riders and horses in a fox hunt across rolling hills, with a thatched cottage at left.

[Fox Hunting] A Pair: The Cock-Tails Done

1834

Hand-coloured print of riders and hounds on a fox hunt through wooded hills, with a carriage on a road and fields beyond.

[Fox Hunting] A Pair: Yellowham Wood

1834

Hunter aiming a shotgun at a rising grouse while two dogs work the grassy hillside under a cloudy sky.

Grouse Shooting

Hand-colored 1829 caricature of a steam carriage with a couple riding, a coal seller, and a man on a steam bicycle.

A pair: H. Alken's Illustration of Modern Prophecy, or Novelty for the Year 1829

1829

Pencil sketch of two riders on galloping horses racing side by side, one wearing a tall top hat, on a dusty road.

Drawing for "Specimens of Riding near London:" The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could

Pencil sketch of three riders in top hats on galloping horses, one rider in the background having lost his hat.

Drawing for "Specimens of Riding Near London:" Fancy - View Near Gray's Inn Road

Pencil sketch of a rider tumbling from a overturned horse cart while two top-hatted men watch from behind a hedge.

Sporting Notions": 'This Gives Me a Notion it's Better to "Look Before You Leap" '

Pencil sketch of a rearing grey horse on a bank with riders in top hats, a tumbling man, and a distant village with a spire.

Sporting Notions": 'My Notion is We Shall Get Him up Pretty Shortly What is Your Notion? I've Worked so Hard that I H…

Pencil sketch of a rider in a top hat gesturing to a woman on a cart, with a man with a shovel beside a wheel.

Sporting Notions": 'It's My Notion That This is the Only Way to Get Her Along'