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Robert Dighton, 1752–1814, British, Snipe Shooting, ca. 1790
- Title:
- Snipe Shooting
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/16 × 14 7/16 inches (25.6 × 36.7 cm), Image: 9 5/8 × 14 inches (24.4 × 35.6 cm), Frame: 17 1/4 × 23 1/4 × 1 inches (43.8 × 59.1 × 2.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower left: "593"; inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower center: "Snipe Shooting"; inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower right: "Dighten-del"
Signed in pen with brown ink, lower right: "Dighton"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.780
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- dogs (animals) | fence | hounds (dogs) | hunters | hunting | hunting guns | landscape | men | snipe (bird) | snow | sporting art | trees | winter
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47175
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Side - by - Side with Gun and Dog (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2015-09-25 - 2016-04-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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