Features two prominent riders, pack of hunting dogs between them, and other riders in the distance. Framed with a black background, red marbled border, gold painted frame edges, and the British Coats of Arms screened in gold on the interior glass.
Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785 – 7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.
Alken provided the plates picturing hunting, coaching, racing and steeplechasing for The National Sports of Great Britain (London, 1821). Alken, known as an avid sportsman, is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself. He created prints for the leading sporting printsellers such as S. and J. Fuller, Thomas McLean, and Rudoplh Ackermann, and often collaborated with his friend the sporting journalist Charles James Apperley (1779–1843), also known as Nimrod. Nimrod's Life of a Sportsman, with 32 etchings by Alken, was published by Ackermann in 1842. In many of his etchings, Alken explored the comic side of riding and satirized the foibles of aristocrats, much in the tradition of other early 19th century. A collection of his illustrations can be seen in the print department of the British Museum.
Frame measures 18 1/4" x 22 1/4".
Visible image measures 7" x 11".
Ref. #060043