A Cock-fight Watched by Four Men in an Out-House:The Death, Engraved as Plate 40 in "The National Sports of Great Britain"
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Mount: 9 11/16 × 13 11/16 inches (24.6 × 34.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Five to one [?]"'; inscribed in graphite, verso, upper right: "29"; inscribed in graphite, verso, center right: "22 /20 pair"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.386
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
outhouse | roosters | men | cock-fight | death | sporting art
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA)