Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British, A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House: The Fight, Engraved as Plate 39 in "The National Sports of Great Britain", 1821
- Title:
- A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House: The Fight, Engraved as Plate 39 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
- Date:
- 1821
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and blue ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 9 3/4 × 13 11/16 inches (24.8 × 34.8 cm), Sheet: 9 1/2 × 13 3/8 inches (24.1 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Five to One"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Done"
Signed in graphite, lower left: "H. Alken"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.385
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cock-fight | door | fighting | jar | men | outhouse | roosters | sporting art
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47130
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Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
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