Live Auction 9376Christie's Interiors
Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785-1851)
Lot 385

Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785-1851)

An Irish huntsman and his red and white setters preparing to shoot

Closed3 September 2013

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GBP 1,500

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Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785-1851)
An Irish huntsman and his red and white setters preparing to shoot
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
12½ x 17¼ in (31.6 x 43.8 cm)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 June 2000, lot 198

Specialist note

The huntsman is wearing an Irish shortbelt dating from around the 1820's, his flintlock gun also dates from the first quarter of the 19th century.