Hunting.- Henry (Alken, 1785-1851) An Album of six hunting watercolours, including Tally Ho, Full Cry, a Rider with a Hound, a Huntsman and a Hound, a Rider on a Bay, a Rider dismounted from his Horse, pencil and watercolour, on wove paper with a blindstamp 'Ackerman 191 Regent Street', each drawing approx. 205 x 265 mm (8 1/8 x 10 3/8 in), bound in dark red straight grain morocco, spine illustrated in gilt, upper board titled in gilt ‘Countess of Beauchamp' surrounded by a gilt double border, with Joel Spitz's bookplate, scuffed and worn, 4to (345 x 265 mm), [early 19th century]

Provenance:
Countess of Beauchamp (1801-1835);
Christie's, Manson & Woods, London,16 April 1926, lot 55;
Christie's, London, 3 January 1939, bt. Spenser for
The Maxine and Joel Spitz Collection, Trail-Tree, Glencoe, no. 40

⁂ This album has a distinguished provenance and belonged to Lady Susan Caroline Eliot, daughter of William Eliot, 2nd Earl St Germans, who married Henry Lygon, 4th Earl Beauchamp. It then formed part of the important Spitz collection of sporting art from 1939.