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Henry Thomas Alken
1785
British artist (1785-1851)
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Charging an Ox Fence with Good Success'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Faceing a Brook Verifying the Old Adage, Look Before You Leap'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Going Along a Slapping Pace...'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Got in and Getting Out. Very Clever'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Swishing at a Rasper From Your Own Timidity and Mismanagement Cause the Horse to Swerve...'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Topping a Flight of Rails...'
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"Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" `Returning Home in Triumph. He Disdain'd a Slothful Easey Life; so Took to Hunting'
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving..." You Discover that the Reins are Under His Tail
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving..." You Discover you Have Overlooked a Small Post on you Whip Hand
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:"... Trying a New Match you Discover That They are Not Only Alike in Color, Weight and Action, but in Disposition
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:"... Up and Down, or the Endeavor to Discover Which Way Your Horse is Inclined to Come Down, Backwards or Forwards
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:"...You Discover a New Way of Bringing Your Equipage into a Small Compass
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"Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Driving:"...You Discover You Have Obtained a Steady One
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'Getting Across the Country Like a Gentleman'
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'Rather Too Fast'
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'Rather Too Slow'
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'Riding to Horses with Difficulty'
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A Gentleman driving a four-in-hand to a Mail Phaeton, accompanied by three grooms
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A Gentleman Riding With a Groom, and Coversing
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A Groom Leading a Bay Horse
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A Whipper-In and a Couple of Hounds Running Hard in Open Country
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Bullbaiting
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Charging an Ox Fence
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Drawing Covert
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Facing a Brook
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Foxhunting: Drawing a Cover
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Foxhunting: Full Cry
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Foxhunting: Gone Away
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Foxhunting: Gone to Ground
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Foxhunting: The Death
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Foxhunting: The Leap
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Foxhunting: The Refreshment
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Foxhunting: The Toast
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Full Cry
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Full Cry
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Going Along a Slapping Pace
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Gone Away
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Gone Away
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Grouse Shooting
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Grouse Shooting: The Right Sort
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Grouse Shooting: The Wrong Sort
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H. Grant on Horseback
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Head and Neck of a Frightened Horse, Left Profile
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Head and Shoulders of a Boxer Dog, Profile Right
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Head of a Stable Lad, Looking Between the Heads of a Horse, on His Left, and a Donkey, on His Right
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Heads and Necks of Two Horses Wearing Bridles, Right Profiles
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Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'
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Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here.'
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Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Leap: 'That Will Shut Out Many, and Make the Thing Select'
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Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'
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Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field:" Full Cry: 'Let's Keep the Lead'
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": "Water, I do Declare with Worms in it"
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Lift me Up! Tie me in my Chair! Fill my Glass'
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks Beats the Baron for Speed'
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks Takes a Ride at St. Cloud'
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": 'Mr. Jorrocks's Surprize on Seeing the Paris Diligence, "My Vig, Here's Wombwell's Wildbeast show" '
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities": Title page
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Illustration to R.S. Surtees', "Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities:" 'Mr. Jorrocks Renounces the Acquaintance of the Yorkshireman'
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In and Out Clever
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Jumping a Double Oxer - A Rider in Difficulties
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Jumping a Low Rail and a Brook
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Jumping a Wooden Fence
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Partridge Shooting
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Pheasant Shooting
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Pheasant Shooting
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Poachers Surprised
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Rider Holding on to a Gray Horse After a Fall
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Rider on a Brown Horse About to Jump a Rail Fence to the Right
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Rider on a Brown Horse Going at a Wall
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Shot from a Gun
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Snipe Shooting
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Steeplechasing: Five Riders Galloping Right
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Steeplechasing: Four Riders Taking a Ditch and an Oxer
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Steeplechasing: The Field Coming up to a Ditch
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Steeplechasing: The Field Jumping in and Out of a Lane
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Steeplechasing: The Field Jumping Into and Out of a Lane
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Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Low Rail and a Brook
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Steeplechasing: The Field taking a Stone Wall and Gate
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Steeplechasing: The Finish
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Steeplechasing: The Start
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Steeplechasing: Three Riders Galloping to Right, Mounted Spectators in Background
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Steeplechasing: Three Riders Taking a Brook, Spectators on Right
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Steeplechasing: Two Riders Taking a Wooden Fence
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Studies of Anglers
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Swishing a Rasper
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The Death
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The Death: Huntsman Holding Fox Aloft
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The Death: The Fox Hoist to a Fence
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The Doncaster Cup, 1858, with 'Voltigeur' and 'The Flying Dutchman'
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The Huntsman and a Rider Encouraging the Hounds
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The Huntsman, Galloping to Left and Encouraging Hounds
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The Ice-Wagon
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The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start
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The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country
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The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death
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The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails
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The Night Riders of Nacton: Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks
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The Night Riders of Nacton: The Finish. Nacton Church and Village
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The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath
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The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner
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The St. Leger, Doncaster: Preparing to Start
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The St. Leger, Doncaster: The Finish
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Three Racehorses with Jockeys Up Galloping in a Group to Left
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Topping a Flight of Rails and Coming Well into the Next Field
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Two Jockeys Galloping Neck and Neck to Right
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Two Pointers, Facing Left
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Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman
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Two Riders Exercising Horses at a Gallop
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Two Riders Jumping a Wooden Fence
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Two Riders Taking a Double Fence
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Two Turkish Cavalrymen
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Wild Duck Shooting
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1800c
"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive
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1800c
"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall
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"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Dead Beat
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"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting into a Bog
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1800c
"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting into a Difficulty
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1800c
"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Over a Difficulty
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1800c
The Belvoir Hunt: The Death
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1800c
The Belvoir Hunt: The Meet
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Afternoon. Returning Home in Fine Trim. Doing the Most you Can
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it No How
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it Somehow
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Down Leap
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Morning. Turning Out in Prime Twig. Doing the Least you Can
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1818
"Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" The Down Leap Done
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1820s
"Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Home
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1820s
Morning Ride
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1821
"The National Sports of Great Britain" 1821: Badger Catching
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1821
"The National Sports of Great Britain," 1821: Owling
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1821
A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House: The Fight, Engraved as Plate 39 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
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1821
A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House:The Death, Engraved as Plate 40 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
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1822
Foxhunting: The Meet
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1822
Foxhunting: The Start
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1823
"Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds
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1823
"Scraps", No. 27: Two Dismounted Riders Drinking at an Alehouse Door
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1824
Duck Shooting
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1824
Duck Shooting in Winter
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1824
Grouse Shooting
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1824
Partridge Shooting
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1824
Pheasant Shooting
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1825
Steeplechasing: Three Riders Taking a Brook
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1827
"By - he'll get to the Earth..."
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1827
"The Cover Hack"
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1827
"Topping a Park fence and doing the thing easy"
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1827
Going at a Rank of Hurdles with Temper and Resolution
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1830
Foxhunting: Full Cry
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1830
Foxhunting: The Death
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1830
The Belvoir Hunt: Full Cry
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1830
The Belvoir Hunt: Jumping into and out of a Lane
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1830s
"Sporting Notions:" 'Hav'nt You a Notion That Tthis is the Best Mode of Monveyance Over a brook? and I Think by the Look of the Fellow he Never Had Any Thing so Neat in His Thing-a-My Before'
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1833
Private, 2nd Life Guards
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1837
'Elis', beating Colonel Peel's 'Slane': 300 guineas, Newmarket, 1837
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1839
Hunting Scene: Drawing the Cover
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1839
Hunting Scene: In Full Cry
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1839
Hunting Scene: The Kill
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1839
Hunting Scene: The Meet
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1839
The Ipswich to London Mail Coach
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1842
An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'
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1844
Scenes from a Seeplechase: The Winner
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1844
Scenes From a Steeplechase: Another Hedge
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1844
Scenes from a steeplechase: Near the Finish
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1844
Scenes from a steeplechase: Taking a Hedge
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1845
Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort
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National Portrait Gallery
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1845
Two Riders and a Couple of Hounds Clearing a Wall
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1849
The Cambridgeshire Stakes, Newmarket, 1849
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Henry Thomas Alken
Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee
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A Chestnut Racing with a Jockey Up, with Red Colours
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A Chestnut with the Jockey Up, with Green Colours
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Cockfighting
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Cockfighting
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Coursing
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Walker Art Gallery
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Fighting Cock in a Landscape
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Five Steeplechasers, with a River in the Middle Distance and a Red Flag on the Horizon
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Harris Museum
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Going to Cover
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Walker Art Gallery
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Steeplechasers Jumping a Fence
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Harris Museum
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The Meet
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The Post Office Stage Coach
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Three Steeplechasers Clearing a Ditch
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Harris Museum
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Two Gentlemen and a Groom in a Tandem
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Walker Art Gallery
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Two Steeplechasers Clearing a Wall, with Two Steeplechasers in the Middle Distance
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Harris Museum
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Two Terriers Badger Baiting
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Two Terriers Ratting
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Two Terriers Trying to Get at a Rat in a Trap
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1790
Cockfighting – Both Cocks Bleeding from the Mouth
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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1790
Cockfighting – One Cock Kills the Other
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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1790
Cockfighting – Two Cocks Attack Each Other
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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1790
Cockfighting – Two Cocks Face Each Other
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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1800
Over the Water, Horse Race
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1800
The Finish, Horse Race
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1800
The Start, Horse Race
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1800c
A Halted Mail Coach
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1835
Coaching Scene
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1840
The Ipswich to London Coach
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1850
The Dead Heat for the Doncaster St Leger, with 'Voltigeur' and 'Russborough'
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1851
The Driver of 1852
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1851
The Driver of the Mail, 1832
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1851
The Driver of the Mail, 1852 (copy after an engraving)
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1851
The Guard of 1852 (copy after an engraving)
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!["Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Faceing a Brook Verifying the Old Adage, Look Before You Leap'](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Faceing_a_Brook_Verifying_the_Old_Adage,_Look_Before_You_Leap'_-_B2001.2.535_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg/500px-Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Faceing_a_Brook_Verifying_the_Old_Adage,_Look_Before_You_Leap'_-_B2001.2.535_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg)
!["Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Going Along a Slapping Pace...'](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Going_Along_a_Slapping_Pace_'_-_B2001.2.531_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg/500px-Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Going_Along_a_Slapping_Pace_'_-_B2001.2.531_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg)
!["Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Got in and Getting Out. Very Clever'](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Got_in_and_Getting_Out_Very_Clever'_-_B2001.2.534_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg/500px-Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_'Got_in_and_Getting_Out_Very_Clever'_-_B2001.2.534_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg)
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!["Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" `Returning Home in Triumph. He Disdain'd a Slothful Easey Life; so Took to Hunting'](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_`Returning_Home_in_Triumph_He_Disdain^d_a_Slothful_-_B2001.2.537_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg/500px-Henry_Thomas_Alken_-_"Qualified_Horses_and_Unqualified_Riders-"_`Returning_Home_in_Triumph_He_Disdain^d_a_Slothful_-_B2001.2.537_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg)
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