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Creator:
Josiah Wedgwood, 1730–1795
and Thomas Bentley, 1731–1780
after George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Title:

Horse Frightened by a Lion (Episode A)

Date:
modeled 1780
Medium:
Solid blue jasper with white relief, shallow oval
Dimensions:
Image: 10 × 16 inches (25.4 × 40.6 cm), Overall: 15 × 20 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (38.1 × 52.1 × 7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.359
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
animal art | blue | fear | horse (animal) | lion | lions | oval | rocks (landforms) | white
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21522
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In 1780, Josiah Wedgwood wrote that George Stubbs, then visiting Wedgwood’s ceramics factory, was modeling a relief for production in jasperware. Wedgwood declared that Stubbs was “fixed upon his subject, the Lion & Horse from his own engraving.” Two blue-and-white versions of this relief are recorded; the other is now lost.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016


In 1780 Wedgwood wrote to a correspondent that Stubbs had visited his factory to plan the production of a jasperware relief. Stubbs, Wedgwood declared, was "fixed upon his subject, the Lion & Horse from his own engraving." By August of 1780 the model was ready. Only two blue-and-white versions of this relief are recorded: this one and another now lost.

Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

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]

Firing the Artist, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3772, June 21, 1974, p. 669, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS) [ORBIS]

Robert Michael Neuman, Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, Pearson, Boston, 2013, p. 401, N6415.B3 N48 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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