Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hablot Knight Browne, 1815–1882, British
Title:
The Sporting Parson: "Why Hang - I Mean Bless Me! If They Haven't Run into Him in My Own Churchyard!"
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, gray-green, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 7/8 inches (27 × 37.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black chalk, lower right: "PHiZ"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.689
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sporting art | fence | horseback riders | landscape | horses (animals) | whips (animal equipment) | hunters | jumping | field | parson | hunting | hunt | men | horseback riding | caricature | churchyard
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
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:47142