[HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver] - photo 1
[HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver] - photo 2
[HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver] - photo 3

[HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver]

Lot 32
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 32 | [HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver]
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[HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845), artist and Henry Thomas ALKEN (1785-1851), engraver]

[Beaufort Hunt, A Series of Eight Plate of Fox Hunting. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1833-4, plates watermarked 1832-1834.]

Full and crisp set of this great series. Published as a set of eight in 1833 with the ninth issued a year later, the Beaufort Hunt was a work of collaboration between Alken as a professional artist and Hodges as a Dorset amateur. It was eulogized on publication, and has always been regarded as one of the period's finest series of fox-hunting prints. As noted by Snelgrove, both the Melon and Schwerdt copy all carry the same etched signatures and markings, as such, it is likely that this large suite was only published in a deluxe or ‘proof’ edition. Bobins II, 779; Melon/Snelgrove pp.146-8; Schwerdt I, p.244 & IV, p.136; Siltzer p.158; Tooley 265: 'extremely rare'; Wilder p.129, plate 52.



Large oblong folio (531 x 731mm). 9 aquatint etchings, with 1 lithograph cut out from original title-page and window-mounted onto first leaf, all coloured by a contemporary hand (lacking complete title-page and dedication leaf, tiny marginal repaired tear to plates 1 and 3, chip to corner of plates 3 and 4, tiny repaired hole to plate 6 and repaired 550mm tear to supplementary plate, not affecting image, overall plates impressively clean). Modern red cloth covered folder, with gilt titled paper label; small red folder affixed to inside cover housing the original 11 black and white photographs of the Melon copy of Beaufort Hunt (see Melon/Snelgrove pp.146-8).





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Artist:Henry Thomas Alken (1785 - 1851)
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