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- Title:
Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match at Lucknow
- Date:
- 1792
- Medium:
- Mezzotint with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 x 28 7/8 inches (53.3 x 73.3 cm), Plate: 20 1/4 x 27 inches (51.4 x 68.6 cm), Image: 18 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches (47 x 66.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink, on back, lower left: "25/58"
Lettered below image, lower left: "J Zoffany pinxit"; lower center: "COLONEL MORDAUNT'S COCK MATCH. | At Lucknow, in the Province of Oude in the Year 1786 at which were present several High and Distinguished Personages."; lower right: "R. Earlom Sculpt. Londini."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1985.36.1301
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- canopy | chairs | cock-fighting | costume | entertainment | fighting | gamecocks | historical subject | hookah | men | roosters | sandals | sitars | sofas | spear | sporting art | tennis | tent | turbans | women
- Associated Places:
- Asia | India | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh
- Associated People:
- Asaf-ud-Daulah (1748–1797), nawab wazir of Oudh
Colonel Mordaunt (fl. 1786)
Humphry, Ozias (1742–1810), miniature and portrait painter
Zoffany, Johan Joseph (1733–1810), portrait painter - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21286
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Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979, pp. 153-4, 497, fig. 94, ND 1327 I44 A72 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Charles Greig, Zoffany in Eighteenth Century India, Transactions of the Romney Society, vol. 16, 2011, pp. 36, 37, NJ18 R65 T7 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 9, V 1199 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, p. 274, cat. no. . 88, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotint portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century . Arranged according to the engravers ; the inscriptions given at full length ; and the variations of state precisely set forth ; a , H. Sotheran & Co., London, 1884, v.1, pp. 253-54, cat.no. 29, NE265 .S65 1884 (YCBA) Another copy available in Prints and Drawings [YCBA]
John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : acc , Martino Pub., Mansfield Centre, CT, 2004, v. 1, pp. 253-5, Earlom no. 29, NE1816.G7 S58 2004 [ORBIS]
Dudley Snelgrove, British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874: A Catalogue, The Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1981, NE960.3 G7 B75 + Oversize (Mellon Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Mary Webster, Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, pp. 505, 506, 509, 651, fig. 378, NJ18 Z68 W43 2011 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
J. E. (Joseph Edward) Wessely, Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner radirungen und schabkunstbla¨tter , Haendcke & Lehmkuhl, Hamburg, 1886, p. 48, no.. 120, J18 Ea76 886w (SML) [Yale Classification System] [ORBIS]