Peter Tillemans, 1684–1734, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1708)
Title:
The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate
Date:
ca. 1725
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower left, "P. Tillemans . F"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.629
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
flags | track | carriage | women | men | jockeys | children | spectators | racing | equestrians | race (event)
Associated Places:
Cambridgeshire | Suffolk | Newmarket | England | United Kingdom | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22)The Thoroughbred: Born to Run and Jump (Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1999-05-01 - 1999-08-29)Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10)Summer Exhibition (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, 1988-07-14 - 1988-10-15)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
A Great Collection of British Pictures in Virginia, The Times (London), , May 1, 1963, p. 5, Times Digital ArchiveRobert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAMalcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 222-223, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative painting in England 1537-1837, 1,2, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, Gloucestershire, 1970, pp. 286, ND2728 C7 LC (Oversize) (YCBA)Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 17, 44, no. 45, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 31-32, no. 33, pl. 6b, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)English Animal and Sporting Pictures in the Mellon Collection, Apollo, vol. 77,ns#14, April 1963, p. 283, fig. 2, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another Copy also available in Vertical File: V1168Roger Longrigg, The history of horse racing : Foreword by Paul Mellon, The Macmillan Company, London, 1972, pp. 53, SF335 A1 L65 1972 LC+ (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. 157 (v.1), no. 299, pl. 186, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 5 (v.1)..., No. 14, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)Red letter days : British sporting art of the 18th and 19th centuries : Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Center Gallery, November 10, 1990-February 11, 1991.", , Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., 1990, pp. 14, 17, 30, no. 13, N8250 R44 1990The Noble Horse, From Pegasus to Thoroughbred , Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd., 2000, pp. 86, 131, English Catalogue p.17, no. 72, pl. 72, N7668 H6 N6 2000 (YCBA)Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 8, N8250 W35 (YCBA) +Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 50 (v.1), no. 189, pl. 65, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)