The Sporting Parson: "A Find- and Our Parson Just Follows a Little, to See How His Dear Brethren Behave Themselves"
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk, watercolor, and white gouavhe on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray-brown, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 3/4 inches (27.1 × 37.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black chalk, lower left: "2"; inscribed in black chalk, verso, upper left: "2"; inscribed in black chalk, verso, upper center: "A find - and our Parson just follows a little | to see how his dear Bretheren behave themselves"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.681
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
hounds (dogs) | sporting art | men | hunters | parson | horses (animals) | horseback riding | horseback riders | hunt | field | hunting | trees | caricature | fox hunting | landscape | fox (animal) | dogs (animals)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 372, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA