'Elis' at Doncaster, Ridden by John Day, with his Van in the Background
Date:
between 1836 and 1837
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 x 43 inches (88.9 x 109.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, lower center: "Elis | Ridden by | John Day"; lower right: "John Doe"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.744
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
pasture | sporting art | men | equestrian | van | jockey | fields (agricultural land) | cravat | hat | breeches | riding boots | top hat | racecourse
Associated Places:
England | Doncaster | United Kingdom | Yorkshire | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Red Letter Days - British Sporting Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Sweetbriar College Art Galleries, 1990-11-09 - 1991-02-10)Paintings on Loan to The Trustees' Room Belmont Park from the English Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Belmont Park, 1968 - 1968)
Publications:
Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., An exhibition fine XVIIIth and XIX century sporting pictures : 5th October - 29th October 1960, Illustrated catalogues price 2s. 6d. In aid of the guide dogs for the blind association , London, October 5, 1960-October 29, 1960, p. 10, lot 25, DealerCat Arthur Ackermann (YCBA)Christie, Manson & Woods, Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of sporting pictures : 12 April 1929, Christie's, London, April 12, 1929, p. 9, lot 53, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 369, 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. 68-69, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Mary Dougal, Racing pictures of the Mellon collection, British Racehorse, vol. 24, December 1972, p. 593, SF338 B75 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 262-264, no. 289, pl. 33, 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. 189 (v.1), no. 361, pl. 54, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (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. 20-21, 30, no. 17, N8250 R44 1990Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)Michael Seth-Smith, Lord paramount of the Turf : Lord George Bentinck, 1802-1848, Faber & Faber, Great Britain, 1971, pl. 21, Sporting 1959 (YCBA Rare Books)