Tiger Body, Lateral View (Finished Drawing for Unpublished Table; Shows the Third Stage in Dissection)
Date:
1795 to 1806
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 x 21 1/4 inches (40.6 x 54 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, verso, upper left, encircled: "15"; in graphite, verso, upper left, from top to bottom of sheet: "615.57"; in graphite, verso, lower left, from top to bottom of sheet: "15"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "D.79 | IR 356/79"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1980.1.79
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
tigers | tiger | anatomical study | side | anatomy | tail (hanging) | figure study | animal | cat (domestic cat)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-02-14 - 2019-05-20)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 102, no. 85, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)Terence Doherty, Anatomical Works of George Stubbs, David R. Godine, Boston, 1974, p. 117, no. 79, pl. 200, NJ18.St915 D64 1975 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 203, 207, no. 158, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +George Stubbs : rediscovered anatomical drawings from the Free Public Library, Worcester, Massachusetts, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1958, p. 27, no. 25, NJ18 .St915 A77 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 83-5, no. 67, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)