- Title:
- Horse Frightened by a Lion
- Former Title(s):
Horse and Lion
Lion frightened by a Horse- Date:
- between 1762 and 1768
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 27 3/4 × 41 inches (70.5 × 104.1 cm), Frame: 32 3/4 × 46 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (83.2 × 117.5 × 6.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso of frame, lower center: "This picture|is the|property of|my daughter|Mary Dorothy|Barnett|and is lent|to me for|my life|H. M. Lowbridge|Baker"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.73
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1977.14.73FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | cave | danger | fear | frightened | horse (animal) | landscape | lion | rocks (landforms) | scared
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5007
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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George Stubbs (Neue Pinakothek - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 2012-01-26 - 2012-05-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Stubbs & The Horse (The National Gallery, London, 2005-06-29 - 2005-09-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stubbs & The Horse (The Walters Art Museum, 2005-03-05 - 2005-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
All The Queen's Horses (National Horse Racing Museum, 2003-04-26 - 2003-08-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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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]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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