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- Title:
The Countess of Coningsby in the Costume of the Charlton Hunt
- Date:
- ca. 1760
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 25 x 29 1/4 inches (63.5 x 74.3 cm), Frame: 30 3/4 × 34 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (78.1 × 87.6 × 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.620
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.620FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | banquet hall | bridle | building | costume | countess | dog (animal) | field | forest | gold braid | grasses | hat | hill | horse (animal) | horseback riding | hunting | manor | park (grounds) | portrait | riding (traveling) | riding boots | riding habits | rural | sky | sporting art | whip | woman
- Associated Places:
- Carne's Seat | England | Europe | Goodwood Park | United Kingdom | West Sussex | Westhampnett
- Associated People:
- Newton, Margaret, 2nd Countess Coningsby (1709–1761), wife of Sir Michael Newton, 4th Baronet (died 1743)
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1084
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