Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Title:
Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.
Alternate Title(s):
Sporting discoveries
Published / Created:
London : Published by S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone place, [1817]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 53
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Ben Tally Ho is the pseudonym of Henry Alken.

Cover title.

Alken's original drawings for the set (except the last "... the last discovery but one viz. a five and forty foot gravel pitt ...) are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (Department of Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.545-550).

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 25

Van Devanter, W. Checklist for book illlustrated by Henry Alken, 72

Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, 79

Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed), 69

BAC: British Art Center copy lacks cover title. Bound in red half morocco and red cloth; gold lettering on spine.
Subject Terms:
Carriages and carts -- Pictorial works -- Great Britain. | Horse sports -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | English wit and humor, Pictorial. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works. | S. and J. Fuller -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1817.