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Songs: "Throwing off dull melancholy..." Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Thomas Alken
Songs: "Throwing off dull melancholy..." Wall Art
ART BY: Henry Thomas Alken
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Songs: "Throwing off dull melancholy..." is a soft-ground etching by Henry Thomas Alken (1785–1851), dated 1822. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3582 × 2842 px. It is filed under 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.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Henry Thomas Alken →
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