- Title:
Labourers [1779, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1781
- Medium:
- Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
- Dimensions:
- 27 1/2 × 36 inches (69.9 × 91.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "Geo: Stubbs pinxit 1781."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.222
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.222FR
- Subject Terms:
- architecture | cart | country house | dog (animal) | forest | genre subject | hats | horse (animal) | houses | laborers | men | rural | trees | wagon | wheel | workers
- Associated Places:
- Bedfordshire | England | Europe | 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:21175
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Henry Birch, Labourers : Print after George Stubbs, Country Life, 153, March 15, 1973, p. 724, S3 C68 (YCBA) oversize [YCBA]
Robin Blake, George Stubbs and the wide creation, animals, people and places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806 , Chatto & Windus, London : Chatto & Windus, 2005, 2005, p. 168, pl. 24, NJ18.St915 B53 2005 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frederick Boyle, Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs : R.A., David Marples & Co., Ltd., Liverpool, 1879, pp. 29-30, CT776 B68 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's Sales Catalogue: June 23, 1978, Christie's, June 23, 1978, p. 107, lot 147, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)
Malcolm Cormack, Anatomy of a Painter, The Yale Literary Magazine, v. 148, New Haven, Connecticut, 1979, pp. 57-59, 63, V1889 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, pp. 12, 54, 82, no. 64, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Dorment, British painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art : From the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century, , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1986, pp. 385-386, fig. 108-1, ND466 P47 1968 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, 'So Good with the Humbler Persons' : Stubbs as Portraitist, Burlington Magazine, vol. 149, October 2007, p. 674, N1 B87 (LC) + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 76-7, 237, no. 48, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonne, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 69, 418, 448-449, no. 230, NJ18 St915 A12 +E44 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Fountain, William Wildman and George Stubbs, no. 44, The British Sporting Art Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk, 2004, p. 9, N8250 571 44 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Walter Gilbey, Life of George Stubbs, R.A., Vinton, London, 1898, p. 47, NJ18 St915 G55 (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Joseph Mayer, Early Exhibitions of Art in Liverpool, With Some Notes for a Memoir of George Stubbs , Liverpool, 1876, pp. 120-121, N5056 L5 E27 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Richard Morphet, Encounters : New Art from Old, National Gallery Company, London, 2000, p. 327, fig. 2, N6490 +M6775 2000 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Venetia Morrison, The art of George Stubbs, Wellfleet Press, Seacaucus, N.J., 1989, pp. 130-131, 164, NJ18 St915 M67 1989+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
National Portrait Gallery, Wedgwood Portraits and the American Revolution, Washington, 1976, p. 24, NK4210 W4 N38 1976 (Oversized) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Constance-Anne Parker, Mr. Stubbs, the Horse Painter, J. A. Allen, London, 1971, p. 117, NJ18 St915 +P37 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, At home to sporting art : the Brick House, Essays of Friends of British Sporting Art, no. 33, The British Sporting Art Trust, Summer 1997, p. 4, N8250 .B751 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Francis Russell, Lord Torrington and Stubbs, Burlington Magazine, 122, April 1980, p. 250 (footnote), N1 B87 (YCBA) oversize [YCBA]
Allen Stanley, British Painting from Hogarth to Alma-Tadema, Apollo, vol. 100, July 1974, pp. 34-39 (footnote), N1 A54 (YCBA) serials oversize [YCBA]
Bruce Tattersall, A Sleeping Leopard by George Stubbs, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 118, No.885, December 1976, p. 843, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Bruce Tattersall, Stubbs & Wedgwood, unique alliance between artist and potter , Tate Publishing, [London] Paris :Distributed by Idea Books, 1974, pp. 11, 14, 23, 54-55, no. 11, NJ18 St915 T37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Farming as Stubbs Saw it, Country Life, 154, June 28, 1973, pp. 1858-1860, S3 C68 (YCBA) oversize [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, George Stubbs : 'The Lion and the Horse' Theme, Burlington Magazine, vol. 107, February 1965, p. 81, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Josiah Wedgwood and George Stubbs, Proceedings of the Wedgwood Society, The Wedgwood Society, London, 1961, p. 223, Sporting 2223 (YCBA Rare Bks) [ORBIS]
Malcolm Warner, Stubbs and the Horse, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 62, fig. 63, NJ18 St915 W37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 106, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Whitechapel Art Gallery, George Stubbs, 1724-1806., Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, drawings and engravings held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, from 27th February--7th April, 1957. , London, 1957, p. 21, NJ18 St915 T36 1957 (YCBA) [YCBA]