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Henry Thomas Alken

British artist (1785-1851)

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Images from the collections

Images by Henry Thomas Alken

11 images from works
  • Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.
  • Men and women misrepresenting the subjects of six popular songs. Coloured soft-ground etching after H. Alken, 1822.
  • A dead or injured young horse-rider is tended by two men and a lady looking on. Coloured soft-ground etching by H. Alken.
  • Aspects of life expressed as symptoms. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1822, after himself.
  • A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.
  • A variety of steam-driven vehicles with passengers travelling along Whitechapel Road in London. Colour process print after H.T. Alken.
  • A man and a woman riding in a steam-driven buggy as another man rides a single one with stirrups attached. Process print after H.T. Alken.
  • A variety of steam-driven vehicles with passengers travelling along Whitechapel Road in London. Colour process print after H.T. Alken.
  • A goat jumping off the horse-drawn cart it has been released from. Etching by E. Hacker after H. Alken.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
  • George Combe lecturing on phrenology, portrayed with protuberances on his head. Coloured lithograph 1826.
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Works from the collections

14 works

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    A dead or injured young horse-rider is tended by two men and a lady looking on. Coloured soft-ground etching by H. Alken.

    Henry Thomas Alken | Date: 1821 | Reference: 41672i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Four different ways of dealing with water during a fowl-hunting shoot: the hunter lying on ice, the hunter hiding in a boat, the hunter on stilts and the hunter using a pole as a bridge. Soft-ground etching by H. Alken, 1824.

    Henry Thomas Alken | Date: [1824] | Reference: 41722i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A variety of steam-driven vehicles with passengers travelling along Whitechapel Road in London. Colour process print after H.T. Alken.

    Henry Thomas Alken | Reference: 36883i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.

    Henry Thomas Alken | Date: 1824 | Reference: 31590i
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    Don Quixote charges with his lance a muleteer who had removed his armour from a well. Etching by J.C. Zeitter, 1831, after H.T. Alken.

    Henry Thomas Alken | Date: [1831] | Reference: 3005094i
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Related topics

Steam-carriages
Automobiles, Steam

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