"THE RIGHT SORT AND THE WRONG SORT”
HENRY ALKEN -1828
(Charles Bentley)
EARLY ENGLISH HUNTING PRINT.
Hand-coloured aquatint with very fine colour. Fine condition. Laid down in oblong. Sheet: overall measures 51 x 41 cm, Image: 34.2 x 24 cm, including frame: 56 x 46 cm. Newly framed On woven paper. Delicious age to paper, as would be expected. 1 of 7 in the set. (Collect the rest!) Ponte Vecchio Edizioni. One dark spot near the bottom. See photo.
WORDING ON PRINT:
Lithography, revised, printed and hand-painted by PV Editions.
Edizioni Ponte Vecchio. Embossed fleur de lis under these words. H. Alken
Left bottom: C. Bentley sculpt PV 2
Henry Alken explored the comic side of riding in a hilarious series of prints depicting the follies and foibles of aristocrats on their weekend outings. They were part of a larger movement of caricature prints lampooning British society that were published in England in the first half of the 19th Century, by artists such as Rowlandson.
Original/Repro Reproduction Style: Realism
Subject: Hunting scene Print type: Engraving
Type: Antique Size type/Largest Dimension (51 cm)
Date of creation: 1828
Great value for all interior decorators, for hotels, public houses, bars, offices, public buildings, resturants, bed and breakfasts, B & B, and homes
Very droll and amusing – a great talking point.
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Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1841) "was the dominant sporting artist of the early nineteenth century..He was born into what later became a sporting dynasty. He was the son of another engraver, Samuel Alken--known for his topographical as well as sporting scenes--, and father of Samuel Henry Alken, who followed in the steps of his forbearers as an engraver and artist.. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture (a miniature portrait) at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen.
He painted scenes relating to racing, shooting, coaching, and other sports, but his fame lay in scenes of fox-hunting... He wrote several books on aspects of engraving, including The Art and Practice of Engraving (1849). His publications included The Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse comparatively delineated (1816), Sporting Sketches (1817), National Sports of Great Britain (1820); he also illustrated the writings of Charles James Apperley (Nimrod'). He provided plates for the volume National Sports of Great Britain (London, 1821), where he pictured hunting, coaching, racing and other animal subjects.
