Fowl Body, Lateral View (Highly Finished Study for an Unpublished Table; Shows the Last Stage in Dissection)
Date:
between 1795 and 1806
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper with traces of well-defined platemarks along margins
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 16 inches (54 x 40.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left, from bottom to top of sheet: "[...er] No. 3"; in graphite, verso, upper left, encircled: "19"; in graphite, verso, upper right: "614.57"; in graphite, verso, from top to bottom of sheet: "19"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1980.1.115
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
Fowls | anatomy | study (visual work) | figure study | bird | anatomical study
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Fierce Friends - Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era, 1750-1920 (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2006-03-25 - 2006-08-27)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Fearful of Symmetry: The Art of George Stubbs, painter of the Enlightenment (Hall & Knight Ltd., 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-28)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. 104, no. 88, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA)Terence Doherty, Anatomical Works of George Stubbs, David R. Godine, Boston, 1974, p. 120, no. 113, pl. 236, NJ18.St915 D64 1975 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 211, 214, no. 164, 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. 27, pl. III, NJ18 .St915 A77 (YCBA)Nicholas H. J. Hall, Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment, , Hall & Knight Ltd., New York, 2000, pp. 174-5, no. 43, NJ18 St915 F4 2000 (YCBA)Louise Lippincott, Fierce friends, artists and animals, 750-1900 , London ; New York : Merrell ; Amsterdam, 2005, pp. 64-5, N7660 .L53 2005 OVERSIZE (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. 68, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)