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
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
