[ALKEN, G.H. (fl. c. 1830) artist, and C. HUNT, engraver]

Los 45
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Los 45 | [ALKEN, G.H. (fl. c. 1830) artist, and C. HUNT, engraver]
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[ALKEN, G.H. (fl. c. 1830) artist, and C. HUNT, engraver]

[A Hurdle Race. London: G. S. Tregear, n.d. but c. 1830.]

Rare and clean suite of prints depicting animated crowds watching the various stages of a hurdle race. The Bobins II, 745.



Folio (496 x 371mm). 4 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand and heightened with gum arabic (crease to plate 1, marginal tear into image and tiny marginal chip to plate 4, very light marginal finger soiling). Red half morocco, ruled in gilt, over red cloth boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, joint splitting at head and foot of spine). Provenance: Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923, American collector of mineral, coins, and books; bookplate to front pastedown) — Joseph Widener (1871-1943, American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and major figure in thoroughbred horse racing; bookplate to front pastedown — Stephen M. Dryfoos (bookplate to front pastedown) — catalogue clipping paste onto rear free endpaper.





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