Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Wootton, 1682–1764, British
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
Subject Terms:
view | rural | dogs (animals) | sportsmen | hounds (dogs) | hunters | landscape | animals | hills | equestrians | genre subject | chasing | men | panorama | hunting | horses (animals)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)
Publications:
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

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)

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)

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)

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)

Stella A. Walker, Sporting art : England 1700-1900, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1972, no. 68, N8250 W35 (YCBA) +
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1154