Fores's Sporting Scraps. Plate 6. Coursing

by After Henry Thomas Alken

$1,750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine example of Fores's excellent series, with images after one of the greatest British sporting artists. According to Siltzer the series was completed with eight plates each with four images : one on racing, three on hunting, one on steeple-chasing and one on coursing. 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

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