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1. Huntsman and Hounds

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 × 9 13/16 inches (22.1 × 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Over the Bank, Exmoor

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: ca. 1895
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 7/16 inches (25.1 × 34.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Kill

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black and red chalk on thin, smooth, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 17 5/8 inches (27.3 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948

4. Huntsman and Hounds

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on thick, smooth, gray wove card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches (20.1 x 16.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Who-o-p!

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 x 19 1/2 inches (38 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Meet

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 5/16 inches (38.1 x 49 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Found!

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 x 19 7/16 inches (38.1 x 49.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Flying Pack

Creator:: Print made by Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: 1898-1899
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 1/16 x 19 1/2 inches (38.3 x 49.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Meet

Creator:: Robert Polhill Bevan, 1865–1925
Date:: between 1901 and 1925
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, white chalk, and gray wash; verso: graphite and black chalk, incised for transfer on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 20 1/16 inches (34.6 × 51 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Lioness

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 4 5/16 inches (14.8 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist

11. Deer with a Dog (Fragment of a Sporting Print)

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 x 3 1/8 inches (7.6 x 8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist

12. Greenland Fishery

Creator:: Print made by John Boydell, 1720–1804
Date:: 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 5/16 x 20 3/16 inches (36.3 x 51.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Death of the Fox

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, smooth, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 x 15 9/16 inches (27.9 x 39.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Making a Cast at a Fault

Creator:: Print made by Thomas Burford, ca. 1710–after 1774
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 15 7/8 inches (28.3 x 40.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. The Sportsman

Creator:: Print made by John Browne, 1741–1801
Date:: 1775
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, line engraving, and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/8 x 19 3/8 inches (40.4 x 49.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

Creator:: Print made by George Baxter, 1804–1867
Date:: 1852 or 1854
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving with color woodcut on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, laid on dome-shaped gold paper, laid on contemporary mount made of thick, smooth, beige card
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 3/8 x 13 1/16 inches (21.2 x 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Osborne House

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving, and color woodcut on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches (26 × 18.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Rural Scenes

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, stipple engraving, and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Image: 2 3/4 x 6 13/16 inches (7 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: ca. 1690
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, before all letters on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 13/16 inches (25.7 × 35.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

20. Venus and Adonis

Creator:: Print made by Bernard Lens II, 1659–1725
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 inches (26.4 × 35.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

21. Huntsmen Chasing a Stag

Creator:: Print made by Robert Robinson, active 1674–1706
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, with burinwork on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 15/16 inches (17.6 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. To His Grace The Duke Of Newcastle, This Print Of The Return From Shooting

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Date:: 1792
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed stipple engraving with aquatint and drypoint
Dimensions:: Sheet: 21 x 26 1/4in. (53.3 x 66.7cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Tiger Hunting in the East Indies

Creator:: Richard Earlom, 1743–1822
Date:: 1802
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, mezzotint, and etching with hand coloring on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/2 x 29 1/8 inches (52.1 x 74 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Kielder Castle, Northumberland

Creator:: William Beilby, 1740–1819
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on slightly textured, medium, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (21 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Albanian Scenes

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint and stipple engraving, with color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Image: 2 7/8 x 6 13/16 inches (7.3 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Castles in England

Creator:: Print made by Bradshaw & Blacklock, active ca.1850
Date:: after 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Aquatint, stipple engraving, etching and color woodcut on cream card mounted on beige card
Dimensions:: Image: 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches (17.4 x 12 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Archers Stalking a Stag

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, brown wash, and graphite, with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (19.7 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Town & Harbour of Portsmouth, with a View of His Majesty's Fleet Spitthead, (a)Portsmouth, (b)Gosport, (c)Portchester Castle, (d)Isle of Wight

Creator:: unknown artist
Materials & Techniques:: Hand-colored engraving on wove paper
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Foxhunting: Rider, Taking a Fence

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (20 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Foxhunting: Full Cry

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: between 1827 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 10 3/16 inches (16.7 × 25.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 7/8 inches (16.7 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 × 9 inches (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. "Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 5/16 inches (18.3 × 23.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 9 3/16 inches (18.3 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt.

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1818 and 1822
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 7/8 inches (17.5 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1831 and 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 × 8 3/16 inches (16.4 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1842
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 × 7 3/8 inches (12.2 × 18.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 11/16 inches (12.1 × 19.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field:" Full Cry: 'Let's Keep the Lead'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Leap: 'That Will Shut Out Many, and Make the Thing Select'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor over etched outline, with gouache, and pen in black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches (11.9 × 19.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 3/16 inches (15.4 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it No How

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 9 3/16 inches (15.2 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Down Leap

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 × 9 1/8 inches (15.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" The Down Leap Done

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 × 9 1/4 inches (15.4 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it Somehow

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 × 9 1/8 inches (15.2 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting into a Difficulty

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 5/8 inches (19.2 × 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Over a Difficulty

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1848 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 9/16 × 10 11/16 inches (19.2 × 27.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Symptoms: of Being Drawn, of a Fine Song, of Troting, of Being In, of Being Out, of a Recoil

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1822 and 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 11/16 inches (17.6 × 22.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 11 inches (23.3 × 27.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. "The King and Noblemen Before the Stag is Turn'd Out"

Creator:: Robert Dighton, 1752–1814
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (10.8 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Wild Duck Shooting

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gouache, graphite, and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 5/16 inches (16.8 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Pheasant Shooting

Creator:: Edward Duncan, 1803–1882
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 10 5/16 inches (16.8 × 26.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Hunting Sketch: Gone to Earth

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on thin, moderately textured, laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 × 13 5/8 inches (21.9 × 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. Woodcock Shooting

Creator:: William Heath, 1795–1840
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, gum arabic, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 11/16 × 7 3/16 inches (24.6 × 18.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. Coursing: Setting Out

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen, in black ink, gray ink, and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 3/16 inches (17.5 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The Check

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (23.5 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. Going to Cover

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 × 11 3/4 inches (23.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Going out of Kennel

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (23.5 × 30 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The Death

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 7/16 × 11 3/4 inches (24 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. Coursing: The Kill

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, with pen, in black ink and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 3/16 inches (17.5 × 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. Woodcock Shooting

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 8 inches (14.8 × 20.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. Full Cry

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 5/16 × 11 3/4 inches (23.7 × 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. The Deer-Stalker, Oct. 15, 1852

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: 1852
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and brown wash on medium, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 3/8 inches (18.3 × 11.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. A Boar Hunt

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/8 × 10 7/8 inches (23.2 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Riders and Hounds in an Open Landscape

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 10 13/16 × 16 5/8 inches (27.5 × 42.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Coursing - After the Kill

Creator:: James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, red chalk, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 9 1/4 × 12 3/8 inches (23.5 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Dismounted Rider Breaking Open a Fence for Foxhounds to Pass Through

Creator:: John Frederick Tayler, 1802–1889
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 3/16 inches (17.3 × 20.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Hare Hunting

Creator:: Francis Barlow, 1622–1704
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (17.5 × 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. "Hark": Startled Horse and Alert Rider

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Contemporary drawn border: 8 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (21 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. The Sporting Parson: "The Sporting Parson at the Meet(ing) of His 'Dear Brethren' "

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 inches (27.3 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. The Sporting Parson: "A Find- and Our Parson Just Follows a Little, to See How His Dear Brethren Behave Themselves"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor, and white gouavhe on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray-brown, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 3/4 inches (27.1 × 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. "You're Not Going to Follow, Belle, Are You?"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 16 × 21 15/16 inches (40.6 × 55.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. The Sporting Parson: "He Joins to Cheer Them on Hallelujah!!!!"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 13/16 inches (27.3 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. The Sporting Parson: "He Sheweth Them the Way They Should Go"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray-brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 1/16 inches (27.3 × 38.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. The Sporting Parson: "He Trieth a Little 'High Church' Style"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 13/16 inches (27.1 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. The Sporting Parson: "He Then Goes in For Baptism"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 11/16 inches (27.1 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Sporting Parson: "Next a Little Low Church"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (27 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. The Sporting Parson: "He Sends Mother Eve's Apples Flying"

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor, and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 13/16 inches (27.3 × 37.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Releasing a Bag-Fox

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 1/8 inches (21.6 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. The Sporting Parson: "D-n -- I Mean Conf-d That is 'Bless the Pigs! They're Mad - The Devil's in 'em' "

Creator:: Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 7/8 inches (27.1 × 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Full Cry. 1821: Riders Taking a Wooden Fence

Creator:: George Alken, 1794–active 1837
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 1/8 inches (21.7 × 28.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Wild Duck Shooting

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (22.2 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. "Sporting Anecdotes:" Sketch for 'The Sporting Butcher'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 13 1/16 inches (21.6 × 33.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. "Sporting Incidents:" Drawing For the Soft-gound Etching of 'Panther Hunting'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 × 12 3/8 inches (20 × 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders:" 'Faceing a Brook Verifying the Old Adage, Look Before You Leap'

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 7/8 inches (20.5 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Stag Hunting - The Hind at Bay: In a Mill-Stream Below a Water-Mill, Right...

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, black ink, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 inches (26.7 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Foxhunting: Rider and a Couple of Hounds Entering a Covert

Creator:: Samuel Alken, 1756–1815
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 15 3/4 inches (25.1 × 40 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: Taking the Gate at the Hinge Post While Snob Walks Thro'

Creator:: Edward Hull, 1810–1877
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gum arabic, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 14 3/8 inches (26 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. "The Poacher's Progress:" Poachers Scuffling with the Constables in the Skittle Ground

Creator:: C. Blake, active 1825–1826
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, watercolor, and varnish on very thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 11/16 × 17 5/8 inches (32.2 × 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. The Return from the Hunt

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1787
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/16 x 11 7/8 inches (20.5 x 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Huntsman Galloping: Left Arm Upraised, His Horn Slung Over His Left Shoulder

Creator:: Possibly James Seymour, 1702–1752
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 3/16 × 13 9/16 inches (33.5 × 34.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Foxhunting: The Kill

Creator:: Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and gray wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 5/16 inches (24.1 × 18.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. A-Hunting We Will Go

Creator:: Print made by Alfred W. Cooper, active 1850–1901
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Wood-engraving with hand coloring on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 15/16 x 5 3/16 inches (12.6 x 13.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. Up and Over

Creator:: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870–1935
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 9 13/16 × 13 15/16 inches (24.9 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. `Ar Never Gets Off' - Hunting Scene

Creator:: Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, 1870–1935
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Image: 11 5/8 × 18 15/16 inches (29.5 × 48.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. Grouse Shooting: The Right Sort

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and red ink, brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 10 13/16 inches (21.6 × 27.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Huntsman and Hounds

2. Over the Bank, Exmoor

3. The Kill

4. Huntsman and Hounds

5. Who-o-p!

6. The Meet

7. Found!

8. The Flying Pack

9. The Meet

10. Lioness

11. Deer with a Dog (Fragment of a Sporting Print)

12. Greenland Fishery

13. The Death of the Fox

14. Making a Cast at a Fault

15. The Sportsman

16. Gems of the Great Exhibition No. 4: The Foreign Department

17. Osborne House

18. Rural Scenes

19. Venus and Adonis

20. Venus and Adonis

21. Huntsmen Chasing a Stag

22. To His Grace The Duke Of Newcastle, This Print Of The Return From Shooting

23. Tiger Hunting in the East Indies

24. Kielder Castle, Northumberland

25. Albanian Scenes

26. Castles in England

27. Archers Stalking a Stag

28. The Town & Harbour of Portsmouth, with a View of His Majesty's Fleet Spitthead, (a)Portsmouth, (b)Gosport, (c)Portchester Castle, (d)Isle of Wight

29. Foxhunting: Rider, Taking a Fence

30. Foxhunting: Full Cry

31. Foxhunting: Drawing Covert

32. "Scraps", no. 22: Hunting, Unkennelling with Two Riders Watching

33. "Scraps", No. 26: Hunting - The Kill, Fox About to be Thrown to the Hounds

34. "Scraps", No. 24: Hunting -Ttwo Riders, One Opening a Gate For Hounds

35. Symptoms: of a Few Neat Ones going to a Mill, of Returning from the Epping Hunt.

36. "Sporting Notions": 'I Have a Notion This May be Called "Riding to the Hounds at a Smashing Rate" '

37. An Illustration of C.J. Apperley ('Nimrod'), "The Life of a Sportsman": 'A Night Scene with Sir Thomas Mostyn'

38. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Meet: 'With Bright Faces and Merry Hearts'

39. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field:" Full Cry: 'Let's Keep the Lead'

40. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Check: 'What the Devil Do You Do Here..'

41. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": The Leap: 'That Will Shut Out Many, and Make the Thing Select'

42. Illustration for R.S. Surtees', "The Analysis of the Hunting Field": Getting Away: 'Let's Take the Lead'

43. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Thing Well - [giving Dribblers the go bye]

44. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it No How

45. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing the Down Leap

46. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" The Down Leap Done

47. "Doing the Thing: and the Thing Done:" Doing it Somehow

48. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting into a Difficulty

49. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Fall

50. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting a Dive

51. "Some Do and Some Don't: It is All a Notion:" Getting Over a Difficulty

52. Symptoms: of Being Drawn, of a Fine Song, of Troting, of Being In, of Being Out, of a Recoil

53. Two Pointers, Facing Right with a Sportsman

54. "The King and Noblemen Before the Stag is Turn'd Out"

55. Wild Duck Shooting

56. Pheasant Shooting

57. Hunting Sketch: Gone to Earth

58. Woodcock Shooting

59. Coursing: Setting Out

60. The Check

61. Going to Cover

62. Going out of Kennel

63. The Death

64. Coursing: The Kill

65. Woodcock Shooting

66. Full Cry

67. The Deer-Stalker, Oct. 15, 1852

68. A Boar Hunt

69. Riders and Hounds in an Open Landscape

70. Coursing - After the Kill

71. Dismounted Rider Breaking Open a Fence for Foxhounds to Pass Through

72. Hare Hunting

73. "Hark": Startled Horse and Alert Rider

74. The Sporting Parson: "The Sporting Parson at the Meet(ing) of His 'Dear Brethren' "