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A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Thomas Alken
A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Thomas Alken
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About this artwork
A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail is a soft-ground etchings, puns (visual works) by Henry Thomas Alken (1785–1851), dated 1824. The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 6000 × 3657 px (4.9 MB). You will find it among Prints and Romanticism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 495 works by Henry Thomas Alken, a British artist.
Henry Thomas Alken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.
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A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
