Period: 19th century / Associated Places: Europe / Subject Terms: sporting art

1. 'Elis' at Doncaster, Ridden by John Day, with his Van in the Background

Creator:: Abraham Cooper, 1787–1868
Date:: between 1836 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 x 43 inches (88.9 x 109.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A Hunting Party in the Grounds of a Country House

Creator:: John R. Wildman, active 1823–1839
Date:: 1820s-1830s
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 x 35 inches (68.6 x 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Review of the London Volunteer Cavalry and Flying Artillery in Hyde Park in 1804

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board laid down on panel
Dimensions:: 15 7/8 x 20 1/16 inches (40.3 x 51 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Edward Horner Reynard and his Brother George Grouse-Shooting At Middlesmoor, Yorkshire, with Their Gamekeeper Tully Lamb

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1836
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 34 1/4 x 42 1/8 inches (87 x 107 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Grey carriage horses in the coachyard at Putteridge Bury, Hertfordshire

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: 1838
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/8 x 50 1/8 inches (101.9 x 127.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. The Suffolk Hunt: Going to Cover near Herringswell

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (27.6 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. The Suffolk Hunt: Gone Away

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. The Suffolk Hunt : The Death

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. The Suffolk Hunt: Full Cry

Creator:: John Frederick Herring, 1795–1865
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (27.6 x 37.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. Epsom Races: The Race Over

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1834 to 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (30.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Theophilus Levett and a Favorite Hunter

Creator:: James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1817
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 39 1/4 x 51 1/4 inches (99.7 x 130.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: 1834 to 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 49 1/2 inches (101.6 x 125.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. James Taylor Wray of the Bedale Hunt with his Dun Hunter

Creator:: Anson Ambrose Martin, active 1830–1844
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 5/8 x 25 inches (52.4 x 63.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. Epsom Races: Preparing to Start

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1834 to 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (30.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. Epsom Races: The Betting Post

Creator:: James Pollard, 1792–1867
Date:: 1834 to 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 18 5/8 inches (30.8 x 47.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. J. & W. Chaplin's Dover-London Stage on the Road

Creator:: John Cordrey, active 1765–1825
Date:: 1814
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 3/8 x 30 1/8 inches (51.8 x 76.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. Archery Meeting in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

Creator:: John Ferneley, 1782–1860
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 46 1/2 x 99 inches (118.1 x 251.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. The Clarence Gold Cup at Hampton

Creator:: Henry Bernard Chalon, 1771–1849
Date:: 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on four-fold mahogany screen
Dimensions:: Overall: 70 × 94 inches (177.8 × 238.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding near London:" The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1809 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on thin, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 × 9 1/8 inches (17.1 × 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Exeter College Eight on the Isis, Oxford

Creator:: William Turner of Oxford, 1789–1862
Date:: 1824
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 × 21 7/16 inches (28.6 × 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. The St. Leger, Doncaster: The Finish

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 16 7/8 inches (31.1 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Epsom

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1896
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with graphite and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/2 × 6 1/4 inches (8.9 × 15.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. The Night Riders of Nacton: Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, moderately textured brown laid paper mounted to thick, card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 1/2 inches (23.5 × 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper mounted to thick card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, mounted to card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. "The National Sports of Great Britain," 1821: Owling

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 13 5/8 × 18 3/4 inches (34.6 × 47.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Netting Deer in Richmond Park

Creator:: Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, with white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, green-gray, wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4 inches (25.1 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: The Cream of the Thing

Creator:: Edward Hull, 1810–1877
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, graphite, gum arabic, and gouache on 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

29. The St. Leger, Doncaster: Preparing to Start

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 5/16 inches (27.3 × 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, and pen and red-brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/16 x 6 13/16 inches (11 x 17.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Earl of Lonsdale's Hound Van arriving at a Meet of the Cottesmore Hunt, March 22, 1809

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1809
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 12 5/8in. (18.1 x 32.1cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding Near London:" Fancy - View Near Gray's Inn Road

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: between 1809 and 1823
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and red chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 8 7/8 inches (16 × 22.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

Creator:: Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (25.7 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 7/16 inches (23.5 × 57 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 22 1/8 inches (22.9 × 56.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/16 × 22 11/16 inches (23.3 × 57.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

Creator:: Possibly Henry Thomas Alken, 1785–1851
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink, black ink, and gray ink on thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 22 1/2 inches (23.5 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. A Shooting Party: Mr. C. Leslie and Mr. John Leslie

Creator:: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873
Date:: 1833
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and gray wash on thin, slightly textured, blue laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (24.4 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. On the Thames

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/16 x 17 5/16 inches (30.7 x 44 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

40. Thames Fishermen, no. 2

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1878
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 10 inches (18.1 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

41. On the Thames

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1859
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. 'Elis' at Doncaster, Ridden by John Day, with his Van in the Background

2. A Hunting Party in the Grounds of a Country House

3. A Review of the London Volunteer Cavalry and Flying Artillery in Hyde Park in 1804

4. Edward Horner Reynard and his Brother George Grouse-Shooting At Middlesmoor, Yorkshire, with Their Gamekeeper Tully Lamb

5. Grey carriage horses in the coachyard at Putteridge Bury, Hertfordshire

6. The Suffolk Hunt: Going to Cover near Herringswell

7. The Suffolk Hunt: Gone Away

8. The Suffolk Hunt : The Death

9. The Suffolk Hunt: Full Cry

10. Epsom Races: The Race Over

11. Theophilus Levett and a Favorite Hunter

12. Favourites, the Property of H.R.H. Prince George of Cambridge

13. James Taylor Wray of the Bedale Hunt with his Dun Hunter

14. Epsom Races: Preparing to Start

15. Epsom Races: The Betting Post

16. J. & W. Chaplin's Dover-London Stage on the Road

17. Archery Meeting in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire

18. The Clarence Gold Cup at Hampton

19. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding near London:" The Pleasure of Riding in Company. One Would Stop if the Other Could

20. The Exeter College Eight on the Isis, Oxford

21. The St. Leger, Doncaster: The Finish

22. Epsom

23. The Night Riders of Nacton: Preparing to Start. Ipswich, the Watering Place behind the Barracks

24. The Night Riders of Nacton: Whoop! and Away! The large field near Biles Corner

25. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Last Field near Nacton Heath

26. "The National Sports of Great Britain," 1821: Owling

27. Netting Deer in Richmond Park

28. Foxhunting at Melton Mowbray, 1835: The Cream of the Thing

29. The St. Leger, Doncaster: Preparing to Start

30. Doctor Syntax loses his Money on the Race Ground at York

31. The Earl of Lonsdale's Hound Van arriving at a Meet of the Cottesmore Hunt, March 22, 1809

32. Drawing for "Specimens of Riding Near London:" Fancy - View Near Gray's Inn Road

33. The Night Riders of Nacton: The Finish. Nacton Church and Village

34. The Leicestershire Hunt - A Struggle for the Start

35. The Leicestershire Hunt - The First Ten Minutes - Shaking off the Cocktails

36. The Leicestershire Hunt - Symptoms of a Skurry in a Pewy Country

37. The Leicestershire Hunt - The Death

38. A Shooting Party: Mr. C. Leslie and Mr. John Leslie

39. On the Thames

40. Thames Fishermen, no. 2

41. On the Thames