Songs: "Ye Gentlemen of England That Live at Ease..."
Henry Thomas Alken|Thomas McLean
1822 · Soft-ground etching · Drawings and Prints
One sheet of a series of satires, designed as a song book. Composed of vignette scenes, each scene illustrating in a humourous fashion a single line from a popular song of the day. The imagery derives from hunting, shooting and horses, scenes from domestic life, fashion, town and country life, military and naval life.
- Artist
- Henry Thomas Alken|Thomas McLean
- Date
- 1822
- Medium
- Soft-ground etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921