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- Title:
A Horse Frightened by a Snake
- Date:
- 1792
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 11 3/8 × 14 1/8 inches (28.9 × 35.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower center: "S. Gilpin | 1792"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.145
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.145FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | frightened | horse (animal) | oval | snake
- 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:38693
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Christie's Sale Catalogue : Important English Pictures : 21 June 1974, Christie's, June 21, 1974, p. 69, lot 182, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 33, 47, no. 70, 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. 119, no. 116, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]