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ALKEN, Henry. You shall see My Stud, Alken has made me drawings of them, all illustrative of their particular excellencies. London: R. Ackermann, 1 July 1831 [but title watermarked J. Whatman 1832].
Oblong 2° (280 x 384mm). Engraved title and 6 hand-coloured etched plates with deckle edges. Original buff printed wrappers, front wrapper with date, title and imprint, price in manuscript, back wrapper with publisher’s advertisements; mid 20th-century light brown quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: purchased at Parke Bernet, 1953.
AN UNCOMMON ALKEN WORK IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS WITH PLATES UNCUT. Although many of Alken’s horses were ‘will nots’, likely to smash through fences or refuse jumps, this series shows horses and riders working in unison and timing their movements perfectly. As one of the couplets on the title-page states, this is how ‘the thing should be done,/As if the Horse and Man were all one – .’ The title then goes on to list the horses in the order they appear on the plates and to praise their different abilities. Whether these were actual horses which Alken rode, or whether the stud was the product of his imagination, is difficult to know. Siltzer p. 62 (under the title 'Difficulties’) noting the work was reissued in 1836.
Oblong 2° (280 x 384mm). Engraved title and 6 hand-coloured etched plates with deckle edges. Original buff printed wrappers, front wrapper with date, title and imprint, price in manuscript, back wrapper with publisher’s advertisements; mid 20th-century light brown quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: purchased at Parke Bernet, 1953.
AN UNCOMMON ALKEN WORK IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS WITH PLATES UNCUT. Although many of Alken’s horses were ‘will nots’, likely to smash through fences or refuse jumps, this series shows horses and riders working in unison and timing their movements perfectly. As one of the couplets on the title-page states, this is how ‘the thing should be done,/As if the Horse and Man were all one – .’ The title then goes on to list the horses in the order they appear on the plates and to praise their different abilities. Whether these were actual horses which Alken rode, or whether the stud was the product of his imagination, is difficult to know. Siltzer p. 62 (under the title 'Difficulties’) noting the work was reissued in 1836.
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