Watercolor, pen and gray ink, gouache, and graphite with scratching out on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 1/4 × 26 3/4 inches (51.4 × 67.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "Brighton Races | John Nixon | 1805.
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6235
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | races | sporting art | genre subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 25-6, 46, no. 59, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)Herbert W Rott, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, science into art , Prestel, Munich ; New York, 2012, pp. 14, 15, fig. 4, NJ18.St915 A1213 2012 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)