Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Johnson Payne "Snaffles", 1884–1967, British
Title:
The Bullfinch: `Black as yer hat on this side and glorious uncertainty on the other'
Date:
ca. 1913
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 x 21 3/4 inches (37.8 x 55.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in brown wash, lower right: "Snaffles"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1095
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
field | jumping | hunters | landscape | sporting art | hunting | horseback riders | hunt | horses (animals) | horseback riding | trees | bushes
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Sidesaddle, 1690-1935 (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2018-09-07 - 2019-03-24)

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, p. 373, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46188