Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807, British

Title:

A Horse Frightened by a Snake

Date:

1792

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

11 3/8 × 14 1/8 inches (28.9 × 35.9 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated, lower center: "S. Gilpin | 1792"

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B2001.2.145

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

frightened | oval | animal art | horse (animal) | snake

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)

Publications:

Christie's Sale Catalogue : Important English Pictures : 21 June 1974, Christie's, June 21, 1974, p. 69, lot 182, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 33, 47, no. 70, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 119, no. 116, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38693