One Days Sport of Three Real Good Ones. The Corinthians making it up...by showing the Johnny Raws how to Grog it
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 15 15/16 in. (29.5 × 40.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Accession Number
62.635.809
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1823, British artist Henry Thomas Alken renowned for his lively depictions of sporting life and caricatures, created this hand-colored lithograph, published by Thomas McLean.itled *One Day's Sport of Three Real Good. The Corinthians making it...by showing the Johnnyaws how to Grog*, it captures a boisterous moment of male revelry. Alken's scene satirizes the Corinthian gentlemen-athletes—a real early 19th-century sports known for cricket and footballdemonstrating the art of heavy drinking ("grogging it") to wide-eyed novices, or "Johnny Raws." Accompanied by loyal dogs, the inebriated figur...
About the Artist
Henry Thomas Alken|Thomas McLean (British|British) · 1785 |1788 –1851 |1875
British, London 1785–1851 London|British, 1788–1875