Cock Shooting and Pheasant Shooting. A pair of sporting prints

by After Henry Thomas Alken

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A lovely pair of sporting prints. Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became an artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture a miniature portrait at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he produced an unending stream of paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until

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