Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851, British
Title:
A Cock-Fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House: The Fight, Engraved as Plate 39 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and blue ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 9 3/4 × 13 11/16 inches (24.8 × 34.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Five to One"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Done"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.385
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
roosters | outhouse | sporting art | men | fighting | jar | cock-fight | door
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47130