GENERAL AUCTION - TOYS, DIECASTS, COINS, RETRO ELECTRONICS, ANTIQUES & CLEARANCE
Lot 368:
Description
This pair of hand-coloured aquatint engravings features traditional British sporting scenes after the artist Henry Alken. The first print, titled Hawking, depicts a mounted hunting party in a wide landscape with falcons and hounds. The second print, titled Pheasant Shooting, shows two sportsmen with flintlock guns and dogs in a woodland setting. Both prints are executed in the aquatint technique, providing tonal gradations that are enhanced by hand-applied watercolour. The prints exhibit visible plate marks. A printed inscription at the lower left of both images reads H. Alken del.t. The top right corner of both prints bears the printed text I. Clark sculp.t. Centred below the image border on both works is the publisher information London, Published by T. McLean, Jan.y 1, 1820. The titles HAWKING. and PHEASANT SHOOTING. are printed in the bottom margin. The works are housed in matching narrow gilt-wood frames with a green inner accent and are mounted behind glass.
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