Lot 42
Alken (Henry) [Untitled Fox Hunting series], 4 aquatint plates and watercolour drawing copies, [1835]
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000
Description
Alken (Henry) [Untitled Fox Hunting series], modern facsimile title, 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates titled 'Drawing a Cover', 'Getting Away'. 'The Full Cry', and 'The Death', 4 watercolour drawing copies of the aquatints, some faint fading to watercolours, scattered marginal spotting and staining, each c.290x380 mm, modern half-red morocco, a little rubbed, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, [Bobins V, 1626; Mellon/Snelgrove p.18; Siltzer p.62], oblong folio, [1835].
⁂ The Mellon Collection holds three preparatory pencil drawings by Alken from this suite. A close comparison with these and the drawings present here show a number of differences that indicate that the present drawings are copies of the plates
Description
Alken (Henry) [Untitled Fox Hunting series], modern facsimile title, 4 hand-coloured aquatint plates titled 'Drawing a Cover', 'Getting Away'. 'The Full Cry', and 'The Death', 4 watercolour drawing copies of the aquatints, some faint fading to watercolours, scattered marginal spotting and staining, each c.290x380 mm, modern half-red morocco, a little rubbed, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, [Bobins V, 1626; Mellon/Snelgrove p.18; Siltzer p.62], oblong folio, [1835].
⁂ The Mellon Collection holds three preparatory pencil drawings by Alken from this suite. A close comparison with these and the drawings present here show a number of differences that indicate that the present drawings are copies of the plates