Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795, Britishand Thomas Bentley, 1731–1780, Britishafter George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Title:
Horse Frightened by a Lion (Episode A)
Date:
modeled 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Solid blue jasper with white relief, shallow oval
Dimensions:
Image: 10 × 16 inches (25.4 × 40.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.359
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
lions | lion | rocks (landforms) | fear | blue | oval | white | animal art | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)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)
Publications:
Firing the Artist, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3772, June 21, 1974, p. 669, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, p. 401, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In 1780, Josiah Wedgwood wrote that George Stubbs, then visiting Wedgwood’s ceramics factory, was modeling a relief for production in jasperware. Wedgwood declared that Stubbs was “fixed upon his subject, the Lion & Horse from his own engraving.” Two blue-and-white versions of this relief are recorded; the other is now lost. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016