Fantastic watercolour and pencil by British artist Henry Thomas Alken of a hound in the hunt.

Henry Thomas Alken (1785 – 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.

Watercolour dates from 1820s-30s signed bottom left, was previously Framed by Grays Dunedin in conservation materials, has suffered a glass break in earthquake, small indentation to paper otherwise untouched. It will need to be re-framed or glass replaced.

Size Framed 48cm x 42cm, Watercolour size 22cm x 14cm.

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