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- Title:
Preparing for the Hunt
- Former Title(s):
Hunting Party
- Date:
- ca. 1745
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 47 x 49 inches (119.4 x 124.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, center right on staircase: "J. Wooton|Pinx"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.704
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.704FR
- Subject Terms:
- architecture | art | birds | breeches (trousers) | conversation piece | costume | country house | dogs (animals) | dwelling | equestrian | formal gardens | fountains | gardens | genre subject | horses (animals) | hounds (dogs) | hunter | hunting | landowners | leaders | men | Neo-Classical | party | paths | portrait | preparation | preparing | redingote (overcoat) | riding boots | riding habit | ruffle | sculpture | shoes (footwear) | sporting art | stairs | statues | stockings | tricornes | urn | viewers | waistcoat (main garment) | women
- 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:1162
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Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, pp. 22, 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 260-261, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 5, 71, cat. no. 53, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE [ORBIS]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 15, 42, no. 26, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 28, no. 30, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Penelope McElwee, The non-representation of the agricultural labourers in 18th and 19th century English paintings : an exploration into the artistic conventions followed by the aristocracy and landowning classes in representations of the agricultural labourers ..., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016, pp. 12-13, 88, fig. 1-2, NX650.L32 M34 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 5 (v.1)..., No. 13, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 62, 127, no. 145, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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