Henry Alken SYMPTOMS 1822 Hand Coloured Etching Thos McLean Regency Caricature

An original hand-coloured soft-ground etching from Henry Alken's celebrated SYMPTOMS series of Regency social caricatures, published London, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket, 1822.

Each plate groups several vignettes under the running title 'Symptoms of...', poking fun at dandies, sportsmen, drinkers and the fashions of the day. This plate includes figures with parasols and a man drinking at a table (see photographs for the individual captions).

Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) was the leading sporting and comic artist of the Regency; the Symptoms series is held in the Paul Mellon Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Framed behind glass with a dark mount in a wooden frame. Overall size approx 40 x 35 cm.

Condition: good colour; light toning. Please see all photographs. A second plate from the series is listed separately.