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- Title:
- A Fox Hunt
- Date:
- ca. 1735
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 45 x 69 inches (114.3 x 175.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black paint, lower center: " J Wootton"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.696
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.696FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | chasing | dogs (animals) | equestrians | genre subject | hills | horses (animals) | hounds (dogs) | hunters | hunting | landscape | men | panorama | rural | sportsmen | view
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1154
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Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 22, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 258-259, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 42, no. 24, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 22, no. 21, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 160 (v.1), no. 305, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 68, N8250 W35 (YCBA) + [YCBA]