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- Title:
Scenes from a steeplechase: Taking a Hedge
- Former Title(s):
A Steeplechase: Near the Finish
- Date:
- ca. 1845
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in ocher-color paint, lower left: "H. Alken"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.52
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B2001.2.52FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | clouds | equestrians | hedge | horse racing | horse riding | horses (animals) | hurdle | jockey | landscape | race (event) | racetrack | sky | spectators | sporting art
- 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:40724
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Thrill of the 'Chace: Steeplechasing in Art (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2020-09-09 - 2021-03-22) [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]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 254-55, no. 278, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
English sporting paintings, Autumn exhibition 1960 ... Frank Partridge & Sons Ltd. ... November 1st-December 3rd. , Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London, 1960, p. 4, no. 7-10, DealerCat Partridge Fine Arts, Ltd. (YCBA) [YCBA]
Thrill of the 'chace : steeplechase in art, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg : VA, p. 24-25, SF359 .P44 2020 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 92, fig. a, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]