Lord Edward Thynne’s Snuff Box, Decorated with Foxhunting Scenes by John Ferneley
Date:
1832 or 1833
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on gold
Dimensions:
Sheet: 1 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (3.8 x 8.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.144
Classification:
Painted Objects
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hunt | fox (animal) | sporting art | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 22, 370, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBAJudy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 247, no. 267, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Major Guy Paget, Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, 1782-1860 , Edgar Backus, Leicester, 1931, pp. 124, 141, NJ18 F3845 P25 1931 (YCBA)