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- Title:
The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate
- Former Title(s):
View of the Round Course at Newmarket, with Racehorses Going to Start for the King's Plate [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
Horse-racing at Newmarket; a Scene at the Start
- Date:
- ca. 1725
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 34 1/4 × 49 1/2 inches (87 × 125.7 cm), Frame: 38 × 52 3/4 × 2 1/8 inches (96.5 × 134 × 5.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower left, "P. Tillemans . F"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.629
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.629FR
- Subject Terms:
- carriage | children | equestrians | flags | jockeys | men | race (event) | racing | spectators | track | women
- Associated Places:
- Cambridgeshire | England | Europe | Newmarket | Suffolk | United Kingdom
- 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:1092
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