- Title:
Study for the Self-portrait in Enamel
- Date:
- ca. 1781
- Medium:
- Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper; squared in graphite for transfer
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Collector’s mark: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (Lugt 2274a)
Signed in graphite, in the design area on palette: "George Stubbs"
Inscribed in a later hand in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center: "This is the portrait of George Stubbs | the Animal Painter | and his name is to be seen | on the palette. | 5 July 1842; inscribed in a later hand in pen and brown ink, verso, lower left: Capital drawing | by whom?"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.1262
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- artist | brush | figure study | man | palette | portrait | self-portrait | study (visual work)
- Associated People:
- Stubbs, George (1724–1806), painter, engraver, and anatomist
- 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:21333
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Stubbs & The Horse (Kimbell Art Museum, 2004-11-14 - 2005-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [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]
English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 6, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Cassandra Albinson, New Acquisitions, Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April, 2007, pp. 40-41, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Baskett, English drawings and watercolors, 1550-1850, in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon , The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 1972, p. 25, no. 31, NC228 B37+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 253-54, no. 27, pl. 27, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon : A memorial exhibition, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1999, p. 8, no. 1, NJ18 St915 G54 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, p. 28, no. 3, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Michael Jaffe, Stubbs, a self portrait , Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, no. 983, February, 1985, p. 85, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Lowell Libson Ltd : British Art : 2016, Lowell Libson Ltd., 2016, p. 24, 25, Dealer Cat Lowell Libson 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v. 1: p.174, no. 332, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 27, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Bruce Tattersall, Stubbs & Wedgwood, unique alliance between artist and potter , Tate Publishing, [London] Paris :Distributed by Idea Books, 1974, pp. 90-1, no. 29, NJ18 St915 T37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Portraits of George Stubbs, Apollo, vol. 81, May 1965, p. 3, pl. 1, N1 .A54 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1975, frontpiece, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) + [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, Stubbs and the Horse, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 200, 212, no. 65, fig. 4, NJ18 St915 W37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, pp. 176-7, no. 150, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 6, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]